Armenian premier, EU envoy discuss Karabakh

Armenian premier, EU envoy discuss Karabakh

Mediamax news agency
8 Jul 04

YEREVAN

Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan met Janez Potocnik,
commissioner in charge of the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy, in
Yerevan today.

The press service of the Armenian government told Mediamax news agency
that Janez Potocnik said at the meeting that the preparation of
reports on each of the three South Caucasus countries has started
within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Initiative.

The EU commissioner noted that the European Union hopes for the
Armenian authorities’ assistance in this process because an individual
action plan will be implemented in the future on the basis of the
report. Potocnik said that the EU is ready to finance all programmes
of mutual interests in the spheres of the economy, trade, scientific
technologies, justice, the fight against terrorism, etc.

The Armenian prime minister and the EU commissioner also discussed the
situation in the South Caucasus, noting that without solving the
existing problems, the process of the region’s integration into Europe
cannot be complete. Andranik Markaryan and Janez Potocnik discussed
the prospects for establishing normal relations between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, and Armenia and Turkey, and touched on a settlement to the
Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.