RA PM REQUESTED EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.12.2007 15:59 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ During a visit to Strasbourg, Armenia’s Prime
Minister Serzh Sargsyan met with European Parliament President
Hans-Gert Pottering, the RA government’s press office reported.
Expressing consent with the progress Armenia fixed in implementation of
the ENP Action Plan contributed by the successful May 12 parliamentary
elections and adoption of laws in compliance with the revised
Constitution. "Yerevan eyes implementation of the Armenia-EU Action
Plan as inner policy vital for the Armenian state and people," the
PM said.
The EP President welcomed Mr Sargsyan’s request to send an observation
mission to Armenia.
The parties referred to regional cooperation, Armenia’s relations
with neighbor states and prospects of their development. Mr Pottering
agreed to contribute to normalization of the Armenia-Turkey relations
as an impornat item in the accession talks.
The RA Prime Minister brieifed the EP President on the approaches to
the Nagorno Karabakh settlement and said that despite Azerbaijan’s
warlike statements there is no alternative to a peaceful resolution
of the conflict.