Warsaw - Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr Robin Cook, yesterday told a conference in Poland that European Union enlargement talks would start on March 31st next year and that his country would push to keep the process moving.
Britain takes over the rotating presidency of the EU at the beginning of next year.
Britain, like other major EU nations, wants to start membership talks with the so-called "five plus one" - Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Slovenia, as well as Cyprus - rather than with all those who want to join.
