ARMENIA TO KEEP STRENGTHENING TIES WITH EU
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.01.2010 21:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan received Thursday
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby.
Parties discussed Armenia’s 2009 Euro-integration policy, noting with
satisfaction that Armenia-EU relations continue developing dynamically
in both bilateral and multi-lateral formats.
They also exchanged views on Eastern Partnership program, stressing
the importance of using all the potentials of the program (elaborating
associate agreement, concluding comprehensive free trade agreement
and relaxing visa regime between Armenia and EU).
Discussion also focused on Karabakh conflict settlement and recent
developments in Armenian-Turkish process, RA Foreign Ministry’s press
service reported.
The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27
member states, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional
integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on
1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the European Communities.
On 1 December 2009 the Lisbon Treaty came into force after a protracted
and controversial birth. This reformed many aspects of the EU but in
particular created a permanent President of the European Council,
the first of which is Herman van Rompuy, and a strengthened High
Representative, Catherine Ashton.