Armenia to host 2014 Euronest plenary sitting

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia will host 2014 plenary sitting of Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, head of RA parliamentary delegation said.

In conversation with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, Artak Zakaryan noted that Armenian National Assembly speaker addressed a letter to European Parliament chief, with RA delegation cooperating with others on bringing the meeting to Yerevan.

He noted the plenary sitting as a good opportunity to center on European Neighbourhood Policy, Armenian foreign and domestic policy, preservation of peace and ceasefire regime, as well as Armenian Genocide issue.

Mr. Zakaryan described Euronest as an active format that allows for discussion of social, political, economic, cultural and legal issues from European integration perspective.

“We don’t perceive it as a platform for discussion of different conflicts. We stressed the need for the decision-making to be based on the principle of consensus when Vahan Hovhannisyan and I were working on documents and projects,” the MP said.

The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly is a parliamentary forum to promote political association and further economic integration between the European Union and the Eastern European Partners. Euronest is to contribute to the strengthening, development and visibility of the Eastern Partnership, as the institution responsible for parliamentary consultation, supervision and monitoring. The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly consists of the European Parliament delegation and the Eastern European Partners' (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) delegations. The EP delegates 60 members, the Eastern Partners 10 each.