ARMENIAN LEADER, EU OFFICIAL DISCUSS TIES, REGIONAL ISSUES
Armenian Public TV
Feb 18 2009
The meeting between the president [Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan]
and the EU’s special representative for the South Caucasus, Peter
Semneby, finished a while ago. Tomasz Knothe, the ambassador of
the country presiding over the EU, Poland; Serge Smessow, French
ambassador to Armenia, and Raul Luzenberger, head of the European
Commission mission in Armenia, attended the meeting. President Sargsyan
ascribed importance to further development of cooperation with the
EU and said that he was sure that the 2009-2011 action plan approved
at a session of the [Armenian] National Security Council provided an
opportunity to move in that direction. At the meeting, the sides spoke
about cooperation as part of the EU Eastern Partnership initiative,
talks over the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict settlement, Armenian-Turkish
dialogue and the course of reforms in our country. Sargsyan regarded
the regional component of the European Partnership initiative
as important and expressed hope that EU would be consistent in
ensuring adherence to this component by all countries involved in this
initiative. Peter Semneby again confirmed the intention of the EU High
Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana,
to visit Armenia in the near future in line with the arrangement made
by Serzh Sargsyan during his visit to Brussels.