What has changed so that the US speaks about a Turkish minority (and not a Moslem one)?
Mr. Countryman: I think there is no change in the United States’ position. The Warsaw meeting of the human dimension of OSCE — I should explain this meeting. Fifty European countries and the United States and Canada signed the Helsinki Final Act and agreed to abide by all of its measures. And once a year all of these countries get together and evaluate each other and have an honest exchange of views about how each of us is implementing the obligations that each of us undertook. So, when the European Union, of which Greece is a member, made a speech that criticized the United States’ policy in some areas, we did not take this as a new position, we did not take this as a campaign of pressure, we did not take this as an anti-American gesture. We took it in the sense in which it was intended, an honest difference of opinion between friends who have all agreed to do the same things, and now we are evaluating each other. And I think that’s the way that anybody should look at what the United
