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"Madam President, the honourable Members will have noticed that I have moved. That is because of the way we wish to conduct this discussion.
I want to begin by saying that one thing that is very obvious to me is that we are seeing a much more proactive Turkey in terms of its foreign policy. If we were looking at some of the issues regarding the position of Turkey in the Arab world, there is much we could spend time discussing. I am particularly, of course, talking about the issues in regard to the flotilla dispute with Israel – a situation that is a real source of friction and which spills over into other aspects of foreign policy and relations.
Turkey is both a candidate country and a NATO member. It is, of course, in our interests to try and seek to calm tension and, from my perspective, to bind Turkey into the delivery of our foreign policy objectives. I spent time talking with Foreign Minister Davutoğlu on a whole range of issues, but it will surprise no one in this House that the issue that he and I spoke about when we met bilaterally at the United Nations was the issue that is before us this evening. I, of course, worked closely with the Foreign Minister of Cyprus, who is new to our deliberations on the Foreign Affairs Council, but follows in the footsteps of her predecessor. We are well aware that the current tensions over the drilling issue concern us because they also involve a candidate country.
My services have been working very closely with Štefan Füle, and continue to do so. Because of the nature of this debate, I am now going to hand over to Štefan to continue from this side of the House."@en1
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