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ARMENIA MAY PRESERVE GREATER PART OF ITS PREVIOUS AGREEMENTS WITH EUROPEAN UNION- DEPUTY MINISTER
YEREVAN, December 25. / ARKA /. Armenia still may preserve the greater
part of its previous arrangements and agreements with the European
Union after joining formally the Eurasian Economic Union on January 1,
2015, according to a deputy economy minister Garegin Melkonyan.
Speaking to a news conference today he said Armenian and EU officials
resumed discussions on the format of their future relations this
month with the focus on a set of specific economic and trade issues,
including the wordings of some documents.
"We have preserved the bulk of the existing formats of relations
and agreements, which were reached when we worked on the Association
Agreement with the European Union. There are questions that do not meet
or can not meet the commitments Armenia has assumed as a member of
the Eurasian Economic Union, but the assessment made by our European
partners shows that most of the package of agreements with the EU
can be preserved to be incorporated in the new format of relations,"
Melkonyan said.
According to him, there is a shared confidence that in 2015 Armenia
and EU can make significant progress in their talks.
After negotiations in early September 2013 Armenian and Russian
presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin said in a joint statement
that Armenia intended to join the Russia-led Customs Union and
participate in the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Before that announcement Yerevan was expected to sign an association
and free trade agreements with the EU at an Eastern Partnership
summit in Vilnius. European officials said the two formats were
incompatible.-0--
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YEREVAN, December 25. / ARKA /. Armenia still may preserve the greater
part of its previous arrangements and agreements with the European
Union after joining formally the Eurasian Economic Union on January 1,
2015, according to a deputy economy minister Garegin Melkonyan.
Speaking to a news conference today he said Armenian and EU officials
resumed discussions on the format of their future relations this
month with the focus on a set of specific economic and trade issues,
including the wordings of some documents.
"We have preserved the bulk of the existing formats of relations
and agreements, which were reached when we worked on the Association
Agreement with the European Union. There are questions that do not meet
or can not meet the commitments Armenia has assumed as a member of
the Eurasian Economic Union, but the assessment made by our European
partners shows that most of the package of agreements with the EU
can be preserved to be incorporated in the new format of relations,"
Melkonyan said.
According to him, there is a shared confidence that in 2015 Armenia
and EU can make significant progress in their talks.
After negotiations in early September 2013 Armenian and Russian
presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin said in a joint statement
that Armenia intended to join the Russia-led Customs Union and
participate in the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Before that announcement Yerevan was expected to sign an association
and free trade agreements with the EU at an Eastern Partnership
summit in Vilnius. European officials said the two formats were
incompatible.-0--
http://arka.am/en/news/economy/armenia_may_preserve_greater_part_of_its_previous_ agreements_with_european_union_deputy_minister/#sthash.GsgiDpId.dpuf