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BRATISLAVA (Slovakia): More than 92 per cent of Slovaks voted for European Union membership in a two-day referendum, according to official results released on Sunday, after a low turnout had threatened to invalidate the vote. A total of 92,46 per cent voted for Slovakia to join the E.U., with only 6.20 per cent against, Julius Fodor, of the central referendum commission said. Voter turnout was 52.15 per cent, just slightly over the 50 per cent minimum required for the balloting to be declared valid. Government officials joined hundreds of people as they celebrated and danced in downtown Bratislava for Slovakia's first ever valid referendum. ``This demonstrates the strong will of the Slovak people to join the European family of democratic nations as a member of the European Union, with equal rights and obligations,'' the Commission said in a statement (in the picture, the Slovakia Prime Minister, Mikulas Dzurinda, waves at the crowd during the announcement of the referendum results in Bratislava on Sunday). AP
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