EU’S NEW EUROPEAN NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM TO BE DISCUSSED IN YEREVAN

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 24 2007

YEREVAN, July 24. /ARKA/. The EU’s New European Neighborhood Policy
in Armenia will be discussed in Yerevan on July 25. The initiator of
the event is the Partnership for Open Society Organization.

The aim of the discussion is to raise public awareness of the
activities carried out by ministries and departments during the
past months for the implementation of the Action Program within the
framework of the European Neighborhood, as well as to discuss the
future plans.

For the purpose of establishing new lines of cooperation, new
approaches and proposals made by civil society will be discussed in
the course of the event.

Armen Bayburdian, RA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, together
with representatives of Armenian ministries, international and local
organizations and European ambassadors to Armenia will present the
RA Government’s approaches to the issue.

The EU-Armenia Action Plan as part of the New Neighborhood Policy
was adopted and came into force on November 14, 2006 during the 7th
plenary meeting of the Armenia-EU Cooperation Committee in Brussels.

The program will enable the sides to pass from cooperation to
integration, opening a new page in the relations between Armenia and
Europe.