STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN ACTION PLAN WITHIN FRAMEWORK OF ENP SIGNED
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 2 2006
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian Action Plan to be
implemented within the framework of the European Union New Neighborhod
Policy (ENP) gives Armenia a possibility to be involved in a more
intensive political dialogue with EU, including around issues of
security, and to take part in integration processes in the economic
sphere. RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian declared this at the
October 2 ceremony of signing a statement on Armenian Action Plan
within the framework of ENP.
He reported that the main document on RA Action Plan will be signed
in Brussels, at the annual meeting of EU-Armenia Cooperation Council.
The Minister stressed that the main document to be signed within the
framework of ENP also proposes developing regional cooperation, as well
as according to it, Armenia assumes responsibility to achieve peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. In Oskanian’s words,
the term of document’s fulfilment is 5 years. "This is a process that
will last 5 years and it is a precise guide for us what to do in the
next 5 years for our public to become more democratic and our state
more stable," RA Foreign Minister declared.
"We are where we are today thanks to the reforms we have started since
1991 and today we are gathering its fruits. But we still have a long
way to pass," V.Oskanian declared.
The Foreign Minister of EU presiding country, Finland, Erkii Tuomioja
also took part in the signing of the statement on the Armenian Action
Plan within the framework of ENP. The latter expressed the hope that
this program will be fully implemented. "If this program is implemented
successfully, we will be very open for the South Caucasian countries
to deepen their relations with EU for even more," the Finnish Foreign
Minister mentioned.
E.Tuomioja attached a special importance to the forthcoming
parliamentary elections in Armenia mentioning that the international
community will attentively follow them. E.Tuomioja expressed the hope
that the elections will be democratic.