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EU DOESN'T CONSIDER SIGNING OF POLITICAL COMPONENT OF ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT WITH ARMENIA
Monday 24 March 2014 10:45
Serzh Sargsyan and Catherine Ashton
Yerevan /Mediamax/. European Union doesn't consider signing of
political component of Association Agreement with Armenia.
Mediamax requested Maja Kocijancic, Spokesperson for EU High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine
Ashton, to comment on the statement made by Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan according to which the EU's decision to sign the political
component of Association Agreement with Ukraine opens "window of
opportunities" for Armenia.
In reply, Maja Kocijancic suggested getting acquainted with the
statement adopted last week following EU-Ukraine Summit which
particularly reads:
"The European Union, its Member States and Ukraine will sign the
political provisions of the Association Agreement. The European
Union and its Member States are committed to sign the remainder of the
Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, which
together with the political provisions constitute a single instrument".
In September 2013, European Commissioner Stefan Fule said in his
interview to Mediamax that "we can't decouple the Association
Agreement".
"It has been the EU's consistent position that the political
association and economic integration must go hand in hand and that they
are integral parts of the Association Agreement. We cannot therefore
decouple those two essential building blocks of the Agreement",
Fule said then.
EU-Armenia Association Agreement including Deep and Comprehensive Free
Trade Area was supposed to be initialed at Eastern Partnership Vilnius
Summit in November 2013. After the Armenian President's decision to
join the Customs Union stated on September 3, 2013, the EU stated
Association Agreement couldn't be initialed. A joint statement of
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and High Representative
for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton was signed
at the Vilnius Summit.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/foreignpolicy/9600/
Monday 24 March 2014 10:45
Serzh Sargsyan and Catherine Ashton
Yerevan /Mediamax/. European Union doesn't consider signing of
political component of Association Agreement with Armenia.
Mediamax requested Maja Kocijancic, Spokesperson for EU High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine
Ashton, to comment on the statement made by Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan according to which the EU's decision to sign the political
component of Association Agreement with Ukraine opens "window of
opportunities" for Armenia.
In reply, Maja Kocijancic suggested getting acquainted with the
statement adopted last week following EU-Ukraine Summit which
particularly reads:
"The European Union, its Member States and Ukraine will sign the
political provisions of the Association Agreement. The European
Union and its Member States are committed to sign the remainder of the
Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, which
together with the political provisions constitute a single instrument".
In September 2013, European Commissioner Stefan Fule said in his
interview to Mediamax that "we can't decouple the Association
Agreement".
"It has been the EU's consistent position that the political
association and economic integration must go hand in hand and that they
are integral parts of the Association Agreement. We cannot therefore
decouple those two essential building blocks of the Agreement",
Fule said then.
EU-Armenia Association Agreement including Deep and Comprehensive Free
Trade Area was supposed to be initialed at Eastern Partnership Vilnius
Summit in November 2013. After the Armenian President's decision to
join the Customs Union stated on September 3, 2013, the EU stated
Association Agreement couldn't be initialed. A joint statement of
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and High Representative
for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton was signed
at the Vilnius Summit.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/foreignpolicy/9600/