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ANKARA: Turkey approved a much-debated text on Monday setting out the framework for European Union membership negotiations and was sending its Foreign Minister to Luxembourg to begin talks. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Turkey had reached agreement on European Union terms for opening membership negotiations and said he was flying to Luxembourg. ``We have reached agreement. Inshallah, we are departing for Luxembourg,'' Mr. Gul said as he left the governing party headquarters after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Foreign Ministry said Mr. Gul left immediately for the airport. Mr. Erdogan and other Turkey officials had spent about four and a half hours analysing a framework document agreed upon by E.U. Foreign Ministers following two straight days of intense bickering in Luxembourg. That document had been sent for Ankara's review. The decision opens the way for Turkey to become eventually the E.U.'s only Muslim-majority country. Turkey's E.U. membership talks had been on hold since Thursday as members tried to persuade Austria to withdraw its insistence on something less than full membership for the mostly poor, predominantly Muslim nation. Austria had argued for a privileged partnership with Turkey instead of full membership in the trade bloc. — AP
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