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| 16:26:04 | 15-06-2005 | Official |

During Robert Kocharyan’s today’s working consultation the preliminary
set of offers about the plan of actions Armenia-EU within the
framework of the “European New Neighbors” policy was discussed. The
participants of the consultation were the Ministers of Commerce and
Economic Development, Justice, Finance and Economy, as well as head
of the Government, the deputy Foreign Minister and other officials
concerned by the field.

A reference to the issue was made several months ago and according to
Kocharyan, an agreement has been reached about the processing of the
plan of actions from the point of view of developing the relations with
the EU within the framework of the “New Neighbors” program. According
to Robert Kocharyan, although the draft program is ready, a work of
several months is still needed to bring it to a final form.

Representing the preliminary set of offers, Minister of Commerce and
Economic Development Karen Chishmarityan mentioned that it was formed
on the basis of the offers of different Ministries and inspections,
the aim of which is to correspond the political and economic atmosphere
of Armenia to the European standards as much as possible.

Giving and overall positive evaluation to the represented set of
offers, Robert Kocharyan said that it needs further processing and
ordered the corresponding structures to continue the work in that
direction.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress