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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    April 15, 2005 Friday

    EU to use neighborhood policy for settling mothballed conflicts

    By Alexander Mineyev

    LUXEMBOURG


    The European Union will use the neighborhood policy for the
    settlement of mothballed conflicts in the South Caucasus.

    The issue was on the agenda of the Luxembourg EU-Russia ministerial
    session on Friday.

    The action plans to be signed with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
    will include human rights and settlement of conflicts, European
    Commissioner for External Relations and Neighborhood Policy Benita
    Ferrero-Waldner said.

    Economic aid is the key method the European Union will be using, she
    told Itar-Tass. A delegation of the European Union and a EU special
    representative will be stationed in each of these countries and work
    on the solution of these problems, she said.

    The role of Russia is very important in this respect, Ferrero-Waldner
    said. The settlement of conflicts on the post-Soviet territory is
    part of the EU-Russia external security roadmap, which may be adopted
    at the EU-Russia summit in Moscow on May 10, she said.
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