Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, the current President of the Council of the EU, had a meeting Tuesday with the Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos in the Federal Chancellery. The talks focused on the priorities of the Presidency programme and topical issues relating to Cypriot-Turkish relations.
“The Austrian Presidency is doing everything in its power to support the current UN-sponsored process”, the Chancellor said. “We know the situation is very complex and difficult and that it will not be easy to solve this conflict”, he continued.
Chancellor Schüssel spoke of a “window of opportunity” at the present time to decouple the issues of bilateral Cypriot-Turkish trade relations from those of the Financial Protocol.
“It is in our interest to find ways of achieving a solution acceptable to both sides”, Schüssel stressed in this connection.
Other items discussed concerned the financial perspective, the upcoming spring summit and the ongoing debate on the future of Europe. Schüssel and Papadopoulos also expressed regret at the break-off of the talks between Iran and the EU Troika.
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