THE PRICE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD

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| 12:24:56 | 26-09-2005 | Politics |

“The EU and the Armenian side have agreed that the political reforms
are of primary importance in our country”, said RA Foreign Ministry
EU department head Armen Liloyan during the discussions in Tsakhkadzor
on September 23-25.

Armenia has already represented the report about the country to
Brussels where several priorities for the country are mentioned –
reduction of poverty, reforms in the power field, regulations of
human rights, conflicts, etc.

According to Mr. Liloyan, Armenia had also represented a pack of
offers. EU too has represented offers. “But they cannot be thoroughly
discussed as there is no program of activity”, said Mr. Liloyan.

This year in July the negotiations about the RA neighborhood with EU
were to be initiated, but “it turned out that they are not content
with the text”.

The next one, according to the representative of the Foreign Ministry,
was supposed to start on September 5. “But this time too it was
postponed because of the indefinite situation”, he commented.

What situation was it about? There is information according to which
it refers to the Cyprus air veto on Azerbaijan. This was the reason
why the negotiations with Armenia and Georgia were also postponed. “We
hope that the negotiations with Armenia and Georgia will resume with
a separate format, independent on Azerbaijan”, said Mr. Liloyan.