EU PLANS ON EASTERN PARTNERSHIP TO BE KNOWN IN DECEMBER

PanARMENIAN.Net
12.11.2008 16:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Union will announce its plans for
cooperation within the Eastern Partnership on December 3.

"When the decision is announced, the delegation of the European
Commission in Yerevan will furnish the essential information,"
Anahit Azatyan, a spokesperson for the EP Delegation in Yerevan,
told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

The Eastern Partnership is a project which was presented by the foreign
minister of Poland and assisted by Sweden at the EU’s General Affairs
and External Relations Council in Brussels on 26 May 2008.

It is meant to complement the Northern Dimension and the Union for the
Mediterranean by providing an institutionalized forum for discussing
visa agreements, free trade deals and strategic partnership agreements
with the EU’s eastern neighbors, while avoiding the controversial
topic of accession to the EU.

The Eastern Partnership is supposed to include 27 member states of
the European Union as well as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia
and Azerbaijan.