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It is improbable that the government can
achieve anything significant on the ground between now and December. However,
the government should formally and publicly commit to collaboration with the
U.N. agencies (and where necessary the OSCE and E.U. institutions) in
developing and executing a program for return and set out in detail the role
that will be played by these international institutions in the return process,
as well as the timetable for initiating such a program. If the Turkish
government wants to fulfil the Accession Partnership requirement regarding
internal displacement it will have to commit to concrete action, not merely
continue the dialogue that it has engaged in to date. The only credible
assurance that there will be a genuine process of return, and that it will be
implemented in accordance with the U.N. Guiding Principles on Internal
Displacement, is for international agencies with expertise regarding return of
the displaced to have a specific and clearly identified role in the return
process. Anything less than this should be viewed as inadequate by the European
Commission.
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