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    FRANCO FRATTINI: EASTERN PARTNERSHIP SHOULD NOT BE ANTI-RUSSIAN INITIATIVE

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    17.03.2009 11:16 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Italy has called on European Union member states
    to invite Russia for the Eastern Partnership Summit due in Prague on
    May 7.

    "Eastern Partnership should not be an anti-Russian initiative,"
    Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said upon completion of EU
    Foreign Minister's meeting in Brussels.

    At that, he said that Italy's proposal did not stir up opposition,
    RIA Novosti reports.

    The European Commission puts forward concrete ideas for enhancing our
    relationship with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and
    Belarus (the latter depending on the development of its relations with
    the EU). This would imply new association agreements including deep
    and comprehensive free trade agreements with those countries willing
    and able to enter into a deeper engagement, gradual integration in the
    EU economy and allow for easier travel to the EU through gradual visa
    liberalization, accompanied by measures to tackle illegal immigration.
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