ARMENIA IS GOING TO DEEPEN COOPERATION WITH EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOREIGN RELATIONS MANAGEMENT
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 05 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 5, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A wide range of
issues of EU-Armenia cooperation agenda was discussed at RA Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian’s April 5 meeting with Fokion Fotiadis,
European Commission’s Deputy Director General on Foreign Relations,
who is in Armenia on a working visit.
Congratulating the guest in connection with his appointment, Minister
Oskanian expressed the hope that the visit is a good beginning
for future close cooperation. The Minister mentioned Armenia’s
intention to deepen its cooperation with the European Commission’s
Foreign Relations management. The sides paid a special attention to
issues of region’s and, particularly, Armenia’s energy security and
diversification of the energy sources. In this respect they exchanged
thoughts about issues of energy possibilities of the South Caucasus
and its neighboring regions, as well as prospects of safe use of the
atomic energy. According to RA FM Press Service, the interlocutors
thoroughly discussed the process and separate issues of elaboration
of the Armenian Actions Plan within the framework of the European
Neighborhood policy. The sides highly estimated the two stages of
consultations in this direction giving assurance that during the
third stage to be held in May it will be possible to complete the
program and already to start to implement it. Attaching importance
to immediate settlement of the existing conflicts in the respect of
complete regional cooperation, the meeting participants touched upon
the Nagorno Karabakh peaceful settlement. Minister Oskanian presented
the latest processes and Armenia’s approaches in connection with
the settlement.