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Finns in last-ditch bid to resolve Cyprus-Turkey row - David Brunnstrom
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Finland launches a last-ditch drive this week to resolve a row between Turkey and Cyprus before a December deadline, but is warning it sees no speedy solution to the issue threatening Ankara's EU entry bid. Confirmation that the Cypriot foreign minister would attend a regional forum in the Finnish city of Tampere starting on Monday, two days after saying the chances of progress were so slim he would not, offered a glimmer of hope for a breakthrough.
But Finland's Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said he did not see a quick solution to Turkey opening its ports to ships from Cyprus as required in its EU membership negotiations.
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