Armenia on with its balanced policy of relations with the EU – vice-speaker
21.05.2015,
11:28
Armenia continues following a balanced policy of maintaining the relations with the EU, vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament Hermine Naghdalyan said in commenting the upcoming EU summit in Riga.
YEREVAN, May 21. /ARKA/. Armenia continues following a balanced policy of maintaining the relations with the EU, vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament Hermine Naghdalyan said in commenting the upcoming EU summit in Riga.
According to her, Yerevan recorded certain progress in this policy. The summit in Riga will define the agenda for future relations, she said.
Yerevan will deepen its cooperation with the EU in any field where it has no other contractual obligations, the vice-speaker said.
Naghdalyan expressed hopes Armenia would sign a document with the EU in future containing both the political and economic agenda.
Armenia’s president headed to Riga today to participate in the summits of the Eastern Partnership and the European People’s Party (EPP).
The EU Eastern partnership summit is held in the Latvian capital on May 21-22. The program envisages political association and economic integration in the EU for post-Soviet republics, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The last three countries signed the association agreement with the EU in 2014.
The EPP is one of the largest political parties in Europe represented in all political institutions of the EU, as well as in the Council of Europe.
Three Armenian political parties, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, Orinats Yerkir and Heritage, were given the observer’s status in the EPP in February 2012. –0--
