SWEDEN ASSUMED ROTATING EU PRESIDENCY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
01.07.2009 10:42 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Sweden on Wednesday assumed the six-month rotating
presidency of the European Union, promising to combat climate change
as well as the rising joblessness in the wake of the global economic
crisis.

"The financial crisis and climate change, with the preparation of the
Copenhagen conference, will be our main priorities," Prime Minister
Fredrik Reinfeldt said.

Stockholm wants to get the EU to sign up to a new UN global warming
treaty to be negotiated in Copenhagen in December and which would
replace the Kyoto Protocol on cutting carbon emissions that expires
in 2012.

"We need a global answer to this global problem," Reinfeldt said.

European Partnership, relations with Georgia and Ukraine and EU
reorganization as well as Ireland’s new referendum on Lisbon treaty
will also be in focus.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress