Pan Armenian News

EU-ARMENIA COOPERATION COMMITTEE SITS IN YEREVAN

20.06.2005 03:52

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 6-th sitting of the EU-Armenia Cooperation Committee
started in Yerevan today. The agenda contains economic issues for most part.
The sitting is co-chaired by RA Minister of Trade and Economic Development
Karen Chshmaritian and Hugues Mingarelli, European Commission Director for
Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Deputy Minister of Trade and
Economic Development Tigran Davtyan stated that discussions will focus on
Armenia’s participation in Wider Europe: New Neighbors EU program. `Armenia
was included in the program two months ago. Presently we should hold
negotiations in bilateral format, work out a political line till end of the
year and start its implementation next year’, he noted. Besides the
neighborhood policy the agenda contains issues referring to the
trade-economic cooperation, creation of business atmosphere, energy
problems, investment cooperation as well as political situation in Armenia,
struggle against corruption and cooperation with international
organizations, FRE/RL reported.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress