ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
April 15, 2005 Friday
EU to use neighborhood policy for settling mothballed conflicts
By Alexander Mineyev
LUXEMBOURG
The European Union will use the neighborhood policy for the
settlement of mothballed conflicts in the South Caucasus.
The issue was on the agenda of the Luxembourg EU-Russia ministerial
session on Friday.
The action plans to be signed with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
will include human rights and settlement of conflicts, European
Commissioner for External Relations and Neighborhood Policy Benita
Ferrero-Waldner said.
Economic aid is the key method the European Union will be using, she
told Itar-Tass. A delegation of the European Union and a EU special
representative will be stationed in each of these countries and work
on the solution of these problems, she said.
The role of Russia is very important in this respect, Ferrero-Waldner
said. The settlement of conflicts on the post-Soviet territory is
part of the EU-Russia external security roadmap, which may be adopted
at the EU-Russia summit in Moscow on May 10, she said.