EUROPE TREATS ARMENIA AS AN IMPORTANT COUNTRY: POLAND’S AMBASSADOR

18:41, 11 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

The next summit of the EU Eastern Partnership Programme will take
place in Riga on May 21-22. “Clear decisions should be made at this
summit,” Poland’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
Armenia Jerzy Nowakowski said at a discussion in Yerevan. He said
the EU aims to find out its real partners.

Will Armenia participate in the Riga Summit? What will Armenia offer
the EU and what will the EU offer Armenia?

Armenia is treated by the European states as an important country,
the Ambassador said. According to him, Armenia is comprehensible and
familiar to many Europeans.

“The Eastern Partnership is also a political program; therefore,
the countries willing to be part of the program, should beready to
come closer to political Europe,” Amb. Nowakowski said.

The Ambassador said he hopes Armenia, which is now in the stage of
discussions and negotiations, will clarify its stance with the EU
and the scope of cooperation.

According to him, it is necessary to understand that Armenia’s joining
the Eastern Partnership Programme concerns the political part, and
it cannot apply to the economic aspect.

“This is the decision of the Armenian government and people and
whatever decision is made, we will welcome and support it,” said
the Ambassador.