Eastern Partnership Foreign Ministers Informal Meeting opened in Sopot

Eastern Partnership Foreign Ministers Informal Meeting opened in Sopot

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Eastern Partnership Foreign Ministers Informal Meeting has opened in Sopot, Poland.

As a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent reports from Sopot, Armenia is represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Karine Kazinian. Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule, European Union Foreign Ministers, including Carl Bildt of Switzerland and Miguel Angel Moratinos of Spain, are attending.

The participants are expected to discuss implementation of the Eastern Partnership initiative and propose creation of an informal cooperation forum with the Eastern Partnership member states.

Eastern Partnership

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is the first comprehensive initiative introduced into the system of the European Union’s external relations, addressed to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The Eastern Partnership is designed to help the countries of Eastern Europe and South Caucasus with their approximation to and integration with the European Union. The EaP has injected a new quality into relations between the EU and the countries covered by the initiative through their gradual integration with the European Union.

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