(Updated 15.50 CET) EUOBSERVER / LUXEMBOURG - The opening of historic accession talks with Turkey today remains uncertain as discussions have been complicated by last-minute Turkish objections to wording on participation in international organisations, concerning Cyprus.
Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik told journalists after lunch today that Vienna had given up its demand that the phrase "accession" as a "shared objective" of the negotiations be scrapped in the first paragraph...
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