The ratification process of the Lisbon Treaty may have been blocked, but it has not come to an end, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said Tuesday.
"The process will continue, though it is long and complex," he told local media
"As we know, we have had many difficult episodes like this one since many years ago," Amado said.
"The French presidency (of the EU) will keep pushing the process with the dynamism that we acknowledge."
"I think we will have a more definite orientation over the future of the Lisbon Treaty in the European Council in October, or at least in December," he added.
"From our point of view, it (the ratification process) is not over."
Amado was responding to Polish President Lech Kaczynski's declaration earlier in the day that he would not sign the treaty into law even though his country's parliament ratified it in April.
Kaczynski said the treaty had been rendered "pointless" following Irish voters' rejection of it in a June 13 referendum, plunging the beleaguered charter into a new crisis.
The Lisbon Treaty is designed to streamline EU decision-making and institutions in line with the continued expansion of the bloc, which currently has 27 members.
It can come into effect only after ratification by all member states.
Source:Xinhua
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