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RA PRESIDENT ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO FURTHER DEEPENING OF COOPERATION WITH EUROPEAN UNION
Noyan Tapan
Feb 19, 2009
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. On February 18, RA President Serzh
Sargsyan met with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus
Peter Semneby. Serzh Sargsyan attaching importance to further deepening
of cooperation with the European Union expressed confidence that
the 2009-2011 actions plan adopted at the National Security Council
sitting gives a possibility to move forward in that direction.
During the meeting the interlocutors touched upon cooperation within
the framework of EU Eastern Partnership initiative, Nagorno Karabakh
settlement negotiations process, Armenian-Turkish dialogue, as well
as the process of reforms in Armenia. Attaching importance to the
regional cooperation component of the Eastern Partnership being
launched, S. Sargsyan expressed the hope that the European Union
will be consistent to ensure loyalty of all countries involved in
that initiative to that priority.
P. Semneby reaffirmed the intention of Javier Solana, the EU High
Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to visit
Armenia soon according to the agreement reached within the framework
of S. Sargsyan's visit to Brussels.
According to the RA President's Press Office, Tomasz Knothe, the
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland presiding over
in EU, Serge Smessow, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of France to RA, as well as Raul de Luzenberger, the head of the
European Commission delegation in Armenia, took part in the meeting.
Noyan Tapan
Feb 19, 2009
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. On February 18, RA President Serzh
Sargsyan met with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus
Peter Semneby. Serzh Sargsyan attaching importance to further deepening
of cooperation with the European Union expressed confidence that
the 2009-2011 actions plan adopted at the National Security Council
sitting gives a possibility to move forward in that direction.
During the meeting the interlocutors touched upon cooperation within
the framework of EU Eastern Partnership initiative, Nagorno Karabakh
settlement negotiations process, Armenian-Turkish dialogue, as well
as the process of reforms in Armenia. Attaching importance to the
regional cooperation component of the Eastern Partnership being
launched, S. Sargsyan expressed the hope that the European Union
will be consistent to ensure loyalty of all countries involved in
that initiative to that priority.
P. Semneby reaffirmed the intention of Javier Solana, the EU High
Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to visit
Armenia soon according to the agreement reached within the framework
of S. Sargsyan's visit to Brussels.
According to the RA President's Press Office, Tomasz Knothe, the
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland presiding over
in EU, Serge Smessow, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of France to RA, as well as Raul de Luzenberger, the head of the
European Commission delegation in Armenia, took part in the meeting.