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FINAL STATEMENT ADOPTED AT THE 12TH SITTING OF THE EU-ARMENIA PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION COMMITTEE
armradio.am
03.11.2011 17:38
Under the co-chairmanship of Mr. Milan Gabrinoch (European
Conservatives and Reformist Group) and Mrs. Naira Zohrabyan (Prosperous
Armenia Party), the 12th meeting of the EU-Armenia Parliamentary
Cooperation Group was held in Yerevan on 2-3 November.
A final statement was adopted as a result of the sitting, in which the
Parliamentary Cooperation Committee welcomes the intensification of
Armenia-EU relations over the last years and the opening of ambitious
perspectives for cooperation in the political, economic, cultural
and other fields, fully supports the Eastern Partnership and the
main objectives of the review of the European Neighborhood Policy,
which include making a clear and strong link between the EU~Rs offer
to each partner country and the rate of progress of reforms in the
respective country.~T
The Committee also welcomes the launch of negotiations on the
EU-Armenia Association Agreement and notes with satisfaction the
progress made. It hopes for early opening of negotiations on EU-Armenia
deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, looks forward to the launch
of the Comprehensive Institution-Building program.
The Committee supports the set of principles, without exception,
presented by the Presidents of the Minsk Group co-chairing countries
in their 2009 l~RAquilla and 2010 Muskoka joint statements. It
also supports the Deauville statement of May 26, 2011 of the three
President, which calls on all parties to the conflict to take a
decisive step towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict, deplores
the unacceptable status quo, condemns the use of force and insists
on the necessity of preparing the populations for peace.
It also agrees with the Minsk Group Co-Chairs~R statement of July 17,
2010 that any attempt to select some elements of Basic Principles
over others would make it impossible to achieve a balanced solution.
The Committee welcomes the EU~Rs intention to increase its support
for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, points to
the great importance of avoiding inflammatory statements in general
and bellicose statements in particular, emphasizes that an attempt
at conflict resolution by force would be catastrophic.
The Committee deplores the non-ratification of the two Armenian-Turkish
protocols signed in 2009 on establishment of diplomatic relations,
opening of the shared border (which has been closed by Turkey) and
development of cooperation; stresses that the Armenian-Turkish
normalization process and the OPSC Minsk Group negotiations
are separate processes that should move forward along their own
rationales. It notes, however, that progress in one of the two
processes could have wide-ranging, potentially very positive
consequences in the region, as a whole.
armradio.am
03.11.2011 17:38
Under the co-chairmanship of Mr. Milan Gabrinoch (European
Conservatives and Reformist Group) and Mrs. Naira Zohrabyan (Prosperous
Armenia Party), the 12th meeting of the EU-Armenia Parliamentary
Cooperation Group was held in Yerevan on 2-3 November.
A final statement was adopted as a result of the sitting, in which the
Parliamentary Cooperation Committee welcomes the intensification of
Armenia-EU relations over the last years and the opening of ambitious
perspectives for cooperation in the political, economic, cultural
and other fields, fully supports the Eastern Partnership and the
main objectives of the review of the European Neighborhood Policy,
which include making a clear and strong link between the EU~Rs offer
to each partner country and the rate of progress of reforms in the
respective country.~T
The Committee also welcomes the launch of negotiations on the
EU-Armenia Association Agreement and notes with satisfaction the
progress made. It hopes for early opening of negotiations on EU-Armenia
deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, looks forward to the launch
of the Comprehensive Institution-Building program.
The Committee supports the set of principles, without exception,
presented by the Presidents of the Minsk Group co-chairing countries
in their 2009 l~RAquilla and 2010 Muskoka joint statements. It
also supports the Deauville statement of May 26, 2011 of the three
President, which calls on all parties to the conflict to take a
decisive step towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict, deplores
the unacceptable status quo, condemns the use of force and insists
on the necessity of preparing the populations for peace.
It also agrees with the Minsk Group Co-Chairs~R statement of July 17,
2010 that any attempt to select some elements of Basic Principles
over others would make it impossible to achieve a balanced solution.
The Committee welcomes the EU~Rs intention to increase its support
for a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, points to
the great importance of avoiding inflammatory statements in general
and bellicose statements in particular, emphasizes that an attempt
at conflict resolution by force would be catastrophic.
The Committee deplores the non-ratification of the two Armenian-Turkish
protocols signed in 2009 on establishment of diplomatic relations,
opening of the shared border (which has been closed by Turkey) and
development of cooperation; stresses that the Armenian-Turkish
normalization process and the OPSC Minsk Group negotiations
are separate processes that should move forward along their own
rationales. It notes, however, that progress in one of the two
processes could have wide-ranging, potentially very positive
consequences in the region, as a whole.