A last-ditch effort by the Finnish EU presidency to forge a compromise between Turkey and Cyprus looks unlikely to produce results at a meeting in Finland today, with Turkey's EU deadline to open its ports to Cypriot shipping fast approaching.
Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja is set to hold separate talks with his Turkish and Cypriot counterparts Abdullah Gul and George Lillikas at a Euro-Mediterranean gathering in Tampere on Monday (27 November) as part of intense efforts to ke...
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