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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THIS week’s launch of protracted negotiations leading to Turkey joining the European Union (EU) will stimulate further judicial reform in a country criticised for past human rights abuses. A ‘negotiating framework’ accepted by the Turks and all EU member states – including Austria, which was unhappy over accepting the accession talks – stressed Turkey must “bring its…judicial systems up to Union standards”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been forged between the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the European Commission to establish a US$5.4 million rapid response programme to prevent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) entering Europe. It will help stop the virus spreading from the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN AGREEMENT has been forged between the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the European Commission to establish a rapid response programme to prevent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) entering Europe. Brussels will spend US$5.4 million on the project, which will focus on stopping the virus spreading from the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Turkey.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
KEMAL Dervis, a former Turkey economics minister has become the new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator. Meanwhile the Thai former World Trade Organisation chief Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi has become Secretary-General of UNCTAD, the UN Conference on Trade and Development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL tea production hit a new record high in 2004, growing 2% to reach an estimated 3.2 million tonnes, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has reported. The expansion was mainly due to increases in Turkey, China, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, offsetting declines in other major producing countries, notably India and Bangladesh.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA’S competitors in the race to exploit this year’s abolition of clothing and textile import quotas have been holding their own in sales to the European Union (EU), new trade figures show. Released by the European Commission, the statistics illustrate how China has – as expected – grown EU exports sharply: from January to May, it sold Euro 7.3 billion’s worth of clothing and textile products, up from Euro 5.4 billion the previous year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Turkey’s Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi Euro 200 million to help fund a joint venture with France’s Peugeot-Citroën and Italy’s Fiat Auto, to develop, produce and sell light vans. The loan would fund half of the project’s projected Euro 400 million cost.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COOPERATION between the European Union (EU) and Russia will be intensified regarding constructing energy infrastructure projects of joint interest, under a detailed “road-map” approved in Moscow. Russian president Vladimir Putin, European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and EU council president Jean-Claude Juncker signed the deal, which also highlights improving the safe transport of energy products, “by pipeline, rail and sea”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$32.5 million to a subsidiary of Turkey’s Anadolu Cam group to build a glass bottling plant, near Ufa, central Russia. Ruscam-Ufa LLC will use the loan to fund half the US$65 million project, which said EBRD agribusiness director Hans Christian Jacobsen would improve the “quality of glass packaging offered to food and beverage producers in central and eastern Russia”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commissioner in charge of enlarging the European Union (EU) has called on Turkey to redouble its judicial reforms, as it approaches negotiations on becoming a member state. Speaking in Istanbul, Olli Rehn concluded Turkey’s legal reform process had “reached the point of no return”, but that much work was needed and that the speed of accession talks would depend on how quickly Turkey adopted European legal traditions.…