Armenia welcomes `Eastern Partnership’ initiative of Poland and Sweden

YEREVAN, November 27. /ARKA/. Armenia is welcoming `Eastern
Partnership’ initiative of Poland and Sweden, Armenian Deputy Foreign
Minister Arman Kirakosyan told journalists Thursday. The details of the
program have not been made available to the ministry yet, he said.

According to the Deputy Minister, `Eastern Partnership’ and `Black Sea
Synergy’ can give an impetus to cooperation in the region.

Kirakosyan pointed out that the two programs are considered a new
cooperation parameter in the communiqué signed by the Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan and the Chairman of the European Commission
Jose Manuel Barroso.

`The discussion on the programs will be completed in the European Union
soon, and we will be ready to study the opportunities they provide and
to continue the cooperation with the EU,’ Kirakosyan said.

Poland and Sweden submitted a plan of advanced partnership of the
European Union with the East European counties in Brussels. If
implemented, the plan will considerably change the EU policy toward the
countries that can join the EU in future, particularly Ukraine, Moldova
and possibly Belarus. `0′