Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
April 7, 2006 Friday 8:11 PM MSK
Yerevan seeks implementation of EU partnership plan
Armenian President Robert Kocharian has discussed the importance of
swift implementation of the Armenia-EU individual cooperation program
with newly-appointed European Union Special Representative for the
South Caucasus Peter Semneby, the presidential press service told
Interfax on Friday.
The president believes this program “will be a new resource for the
development of reforms in Armenia.”
Semneby said the EU is concerned about the establishment of peace and
stability in the South Caucasus and, in particular, about the soonest
possible settlement of the conflicts existing in the region.
Kocharian and Semneby discussed ways for a peaceful settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the organization of parliamentary and
presidential elections in Armenia in 2007 and 2008, the presidential
press service said.
The Armenian president praised the establishment of the institution
of an EU representative in the South Caucasus, saying that this would
make it possible to systematize relations with all European Union
institutions.
The Armenia-EU individual cooperation plan within the EU’s New
Neighborhood program is being finalized now. The program should be
endorsed in May this year.