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EUROPEAN UNION REMAINS COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING TIES WITH ARMENIA, COMMISSIONER SAYS
YEREVAN, September 20. / ARKA /. The European Union remains committed
to developing cooperation with Armenia, despite the fact that it
has no interest in signing an association agreement with it, having
chosen to join the Russia-led Customs Union, European Commissioner
for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fuele said, according
to RIA Novosti.
"The European Commission is ready for new forms of cooperation with
Armenia" - Fuele said at a news conference on the fringes of a Yalta
European Strategy forum. According to him, Armenia remains an active
member of EU's Eastern Partnership program and continues implementation
of EU-proposed reforms.
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan announced September 3 after talks
with Russia's Putin in Moscow that his country would join the Customs
Union. Before that Armenia was expected to initial an association
agreement with the European Union in late November. Following this
the Armenian government offered to finalize a watered-down version
of the association agreement, but EU's enlargement commissioner
Stefan Fuele dismissed this idea during a visit to Armenia saying
the association agreement was actually one agreement. "They (the
association agreement and the deep and comprehensive free trade
area) are two parts of one treaty that have been negotiated with our
Armenian colleagues. There are clear links between those two parts;
you can't separate just one at the expense of the other," he said at
a news conference in Yerevan. -0-.
11:48 20.09.2013
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/european_union_remains_committed_to_developing_tie s_with_armenia_commissioner_says/
From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, September 20. / ARKA /. The European Union remains committed
to developing cooperation with Armenia, despite the fact that it
has no interest in signing an association agreement with it, having
chosen to join the Russia-led Customs Union, European Commissioner
for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fuele said, according
to RIA Novosti.
"The European Commission is ready for new forms of cooperation with
Armenia" - Fuele said at a news conference on the fringes of a Yalta
European Strategy forum. According to him, Armenia remains an active
member of EU's Eastern Partnership program and continues implementation
of EU-proposed reforms.
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan announced September 3 after talks
with Russia's Putin in Moscow that his country would join the Customs
Union. Before that Armenia was expected to initial an association
agreement with the European Union in late November. Following this
the Armenian government offered to finalize a watered-down version
of the association agreement, but EU's enlargement commissioner
Stefan Fuele dismissed this idea during a visit to Armenia saying
the association agreement was actually one agreement. "They (the
association agreement and the deep and comprehensive free trade
area) are two parts of one treaty that have been negotiated with our
Armenian colleagues. There are clear links between those two parts;
you can't separate just one at the expense of the other," he said at
a news conference in Yerevan. -0-.
11:48 20.09.2013
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/european_union_remains_committed_to_developing_tie s_with_armenia_commissioner_says/
From: Baghdasarian