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Cyprus issue cannot block island's EU accession, Spanish and Portuguese PM's say.

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(From Athens News Agency)

A solution to the Cyprus problem was not a condition for Cyprus' accession to the EU and the island republic would join at the Copenhagen Summit if it fulfilled the criteria, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said on Sunday. He was speaking at a press conference held after a Centre-Democrats International organised by main opposition New Democracy on Corfu

Also present was Portuguese Prime Minister Juan Manuel Durao Barroso, who said that Cyprus would definitely join the EU on December 12 without any additional terms

At the same time, he noted that the EU wanted the political problem on Cyprus resolved because it did not want yet another issue requiring a resolution within its borders

Aznar described the set of proposals for solving the Cyprus issue presented by ...

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