VARTAN OSKANIAN: WE ATTACH GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ARMENIA’S COOPERATION WITH EUROPEAN ORGANIZATIONS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 19 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The coming six months will be
very active for Armenia in the respect of development of cooperation
with European organizations. Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian
declared at the December 19 press conference. In his words, cooperation
with the European Union receives key importance. Thus, Germany that
will preside in EU from January declared about its priorities in
the period of its chairmanship in EU, among which are the Caucasian
region, the New European Neighborhood program. And proceeding from
this, the coming six months will be rather eventful and intensive
in the respect of cooperation with EU. Armenia plans to clarify its
priorities within the framework of the Actions Plan and to present
them to EU. In the Minister’s words, both many-sided cooperation with
the European Union and reaching agreements on a number of issues
with concrete members of EU are scheduled within the framework of
the Actions Plan. V.Oskanian reported that intensive work in another
two European directions – NATO and the Council of Europe, is also
planned. In particular, in the first half of 2007 NATO is to sum
up the results of the first year of Armenia’s cooperation with NATO
within the framework of the Individual Partnership Actions Plan. In
the respect of Armenia’s cooperation with the Council of Europe the
Minister pointed to reforms in the sphere of legislation.