Polish ambassador: Warsaw summit to become cornerstone of Eastern PartnershipSeptember 6, 2011 - 13:22 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Eastern Partnership to be held in Warsaw late September will become a cornerstone of the initiative, according to Polish ambassador to Armenia. Commenting on EU talks with Armenia at a news conference in Yerevan, ambassador Zdzislaw Raczynski said the most complicated issues are still to be coordinated, these being free trade zone creation and visa regime facilitation. The ambassador emphasized that Poland is one of the countries ready for establishment of firm relations with all EaP states. The Eastern Partnership summit of heads of states and governments of EU countries and the Eastern Partnership countries will be held in Warsaw on September 29-30, 2011. An assessment of the achievements to date, and the increase of EU commitment to its Eastern partners will be the main aim of the summit. The Summit should increase the pace of further improvement of mutual relations and of EU integration. During the Summit there will be an informal dinner, two plenary sessions, and a common declaration will be signed. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |