ACCORDING TO GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO RA, PROCESSES CONNECTED WITH
EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION WON’T HAVE IMPACT ON NEW NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN. More than tens of local NGOs took part
in the conference on the subject “Civil Society of Armenia and
European Neighborhood European Union Program” held on June 7 by the
Club of Economic Journalists NGO. Mentioning the importance of holding
the conference, Heike Renate Peitsch, German Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary to Armenia, said that the conference shows how
much the Armenian public and NGOs are interested in the discussion of
the European Neighborhood program, which, in essence, is a program of
development of a civil society. The ambassador mentioned that the
declining of the European Constitution in France and Holland can’t
have any impact on the development or the future of the
above-mentioned program. According to her, the future of Europe from
point of view of the Constitution will be decided during the European
Commission’s meeting that will take place next week in Luxemburg.
Tigran Jrbashian, Director of the Center for European Policy and Legal
Consultations, mentioned that the main goal of the European
Neighborhood program is to work out a concrete agenda in relations
with the EU for the term of 3-5 years. It will help to create a zone
of well-being and neighborly relations within the framework of new EU
borders and out of them. According to T.Jrbashian, the main clauses of
the EU program on the part of Armenia chiefly concern increase in
efforts aimed at poverty reduction, protection of environment,
stopping of the work of the ANPP.