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"en.20021219.3.4-086"2
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"I have voted in favour of the resolution.
We Swedish Christian Democrats sincerely welcome the fact that the division of Europe can now be a thing of the past. The Second World War has thus been brought to a definitive end. The EU is no longer just a form of West European cooperation, but not far from being pan-European.
The EU would nonetheless be seriously threatened as a peace project if, in the future, the Council were to give Turkey a date for entering into membership negotiations while that country continues with the military occupation, begun in 1974, of 37% of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, that is to say of a future Member State. I therefore find it deeply regrettable that Amendment No 13, which calls attention to this fact, was not adopted.
Amendment No 10 by the Christian Democratic Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats provided scope for a revised aid strategy for Turkey on the basis of a special partnership. It was unfortunate that this alternative and complement to Turkey’s membership ambitions was voted down, with 201 ‘yes’ votes, 238 ‘no’ votes and 16 abstentions."@en1
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