TURKEY: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledges to relax visa requirements for Turkish businessmen

Record ID: 640870

  • Title: TURKEY: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledges to relax visa requirements for Turkish businessmen
  • Date: 9th December 2010
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (DECEMBER 09, 2010) (REUTERS) WIDE OF TURKISH - POLISH BUSINESS FORUM MEETING IN PROGRESS POLISH PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK SEATED TUSK WALKING TO PODIUM TO ADDRESS BUSINESSMEN BUSINESSMEN LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) POLISH PRIME MINISTER, DONALD TUSK, SAYING: "I will personally take the necessary steps to ease visa requirements for Turkish businessmen and I will also try to heap pressure on the European Union to relax the Schengen visa regulations." BUSINESSMEN LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) POLISH PRIME MINISTER, DONALD TUSK, SAYING: "EU enlargement and Turkey's membership to the block are constant facts in Poland's political strategy. I am not showing courtesy." BUSINESSMEN LISTENING TUSK STEPPING OFF PODIUM VARIOUS OF TUSK AND TURKISH MINISTERS LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 24th December 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Turkey, Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA1Y2BPKMN3MOK7KRMB3GTUFRO1
  • Story Text: Poland will take the necessary steps to facilitate visa requirements for Turkish businessmen, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a business forum on Thursday (December 09).
    "I will personally take the necessary steps to ease visa requirements for Turkish businessmen and I will also try to heap pressure on European Union to relax the Schengen visa regulations," Tusk said on the second day of his official visit.
    Tusk also said that Poland has been urging the European Union to ease visa regimes for all European partners.
    He also re-emphasised Poland's stance on Turkey's EU membership bid.
    "EU enlargement and Turkey's membership to the block are constant facts in Poland's political strategy. I am not showing courtesy," Tusk said.
    The Polish Premier was on a two-day visit to Turkey after holding talks with Turkish leaders in the capital city of Ankara after which he flew to Istanbul, Turkey's cultural and business centre, to liaise with Turkish entrepreneurs on various investment opportunities in the country.
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