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No new Turkey-EU chapters before Dec -Sarkozy

Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:44am EDT

LISBON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - No new areas of Turkey's accession talks with the European Union will be opened before December, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.

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Sarkozy is firmly opposed to Turkey's EU bid and France has said in the past that it has a problem with five of the 35 areas, or "chapters", into which negotiations are divided, arguing that they assume an outcome of full membership.

"There will be no opening of a Turkish chapter in the month of November. All that will be pushed back to December," Sarkozy told a news conference in Portugal after an EU summit.

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