(ECO) TURKEY BEGINS TALKS WITH EU TO JOIN ENERGY COMMUNITY.BRUSSELS, Sep 11, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Turkey and European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community have started negotiations on Thursday for Turkey's accession to the Energy Community, European Commission European Commission, branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community said. A Turkish delegation led by Yusuf Yazar, Deputy Undersecretary for Energy, met with a European Commission negotiating team headed by Fabrizio Barbaso, Deputy Director General for Energy, in Vienna. It was the first negotiation session in view of Turkey's accession to the Energy Community Treaty. The first meeting discussed reforms made by Turkish government on energy, especially in electricity market, sources said. EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs Andris Piebalgs (born 17 September 1957) is a Latvian politician and diplomat, currently serving as European Commissioner for Energy. Early career Born in Valmiera and educated at the University of Latvia in Riga, Piebalgs worked as a teacher in Valmiera in the 1980s. said, "Turkey is carrying out fundamental reforms in order to address its huge energy challenge. Turkey is well prepared and has an important role to play in the Energy Community. I hope that the negotiations will proceed swiftly and could be concluded in the coming months." European Commission said relations between Turkey and EU on energy have reached a milestone after intergovernmental signing of Nabucco deal in July and launch of negotiations on Turkey's accession to the Energy Community. The parties to the Energy Community are the European Community European Community: see European Union. European Community (EC) Organization formed in 1967 with the merger of the European Economic Community, European Coal and Steel Community, and European Atomic Energy Community. , as well as Balkan countries Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. The community aims at adjustment of participant countries to EU acquis and their accession to European energy network. Observer countries Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Norway contribute to EU's energy supply security. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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