RA PRESIDENT PARTICIPATES IN EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT
ARMENPRESS
17:19, 30 September, 2011
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who is Warsaw on a working visit,
participated today in EU Eastern Partnership Summit. Presidential
press service told Armenpress. In his address at the summit Serzh
Sargsyan said that the birth of the Eastern Partnership was really
the demand of time. "It gave a new breath and opened new perspectives
for the relations of the European Union and Eastern Partnership. Now,
two years later after the launch of the initiative, it is necessary
to sum up the progress and indicate the tasks for future. Referring
to these issues within the summit reflects the attitude toward the
Eastern Partnership and reconfirms the political commitment of pushing
it forward.
The challenges in our non-stop world concern both the European
Union and countries of Eastern Partnership, because as a result
of our cooperation the interconnection is becoming more and more
tangible. We attach high importance to "more support - more reforms"
principle worked out as a result of reconsideration of the European
neighborhood policy.
Armenia registers the progress in negotiations over the Association
Agreement with gratification. We aim to maintain and continue such
tempo of the progress and now we undertake steps for implementation of
relevant measures in the direction of creating a deep and comprehensive
free trade zone with the European Union. We look upon this process
as an additional impetus of pushing forward the basic institutional
and structural reforms in Armenia," Serzh Sargsyan said.
ARMENPRESS
17:19, 30 September, 2011
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who is Warsaw on a working visit,
participated today in EU Eastern Partnership Summit. Presidential
press service told Armenpress. In his address at the summit Serzh
Sargsyan said that the birth of the Eastern Partnership was really
the demand of time. "It gave a new breath and opened new perspectives
for the relations of the European Union and Eastern Partnership. Now,
two years later after the launch of the initiative, it is necessary
to sum up the progress and indicate the tasks for future. Referring
to these issues within the summit reflects the attitude toward the
Eastern Partnership and reconfirms the political commitment of pushing
it forward.
The challenges in our non-stop world concern both the European
Union and countries of Eastern Partnership, because as a result
of our cooperation the interconnection is becoming more and more
tangible. We attach high importance to "more support - more reforms"
principle worked out as a result of reconsideration of the European
neighborhood policy.
Armenia registers the progress in negotiations over the Association
Agreement with gratification. We aim to maintain and continue such
tempo of the progress and now we undertake steps for implementation of
relevant measures in the direction of creating a deep and comprehensive
free trade zone with the European Union. We look upon this process
as an additional impetus of pushing forward the basic institutional
and structural reforms in Armenia," Serzh Sargsyan said.