Association agreement with Armenia off the table, Sweden’s FM says
10.09.2013,
15:33
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt said on his Twitter page that EU-Armenia Association Agreement was off the agenda.
YEREVAN, September 10. / ARKA /. Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt said on his Twitter page that EU-Armenia Association Agreement was off the agenda.
"The Association Agreement with Armenia is now off the table. We work with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia," he wrote.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian announced on September 3 after talks with Russia’s Putin in Moscow that Armenia will join the Customs Union, although the country was poised to sign Association Agreement with EU in November.
On September 6, the EU's commissioner for enlargement and neighbourhood policy, Stefan Fuele, said Armenia's obligations to the Customs Union would not appear to be compatible with an EU Association Agreement that is scheduled to be discussed and initiated in November at a summit in Vilnius. -0-
