EU High Representative and Vice-President (HR/VP) Federica Mogherini and EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn will attend a Turkey-EU ministerial political dialogue meeting on Jan. 25, where Turkey will be represented by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and EU Minister Volkan Bozkır.
- The key meeting in Ankara comes only a few days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted her Turkish counterpart, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, in Berlin on Jan. 22.
The two leaders pledged to continue to work intensively together to solve Europe’s migrant crisis - not only to stem the flow of people but to improve conditions in Turkey’s refugee camps and to bring about a peace deal in Syria.
Merkel, meanwhile, reiterated her call for a European solution and promised Turkey 3 billion euros ($3.24 billion) in EU aid to cope with more than 2 million Syrian refugees in the country.
As part of the visiting delegation, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides was scheduled to arrive in Turkey over the weekend in order to visit EU-funded humanitarian aid projects that assist mainly refugees from Syria and Iraq in the regions most affected by the crisis...
[hurriyetdailynews.com]
24/1/16
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EU must support Turkey more on refugees, says Mogherini...
ReplyDeleteThe European Union has to do more to support Turkey in its work caring for refugees, the bloc's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday after talks with Turkish officials.
Mogherini also said at a news conference in Ankara that it was extremely important to begin the transition process in Syria with better humanitarian conditions on the ground.
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