Armenia to keep strengthening ties with EU

PanARMENIAN.Net - Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan received Thursday EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby.

Parties discussed Armenia's 2009 Euro-integration policy, noting with satisfaction that Armenia-EU relations continue developing dynamically in both bilateral and multi-lateral formats.



They also exchanged views on Eastern Partnership program, stressing the importance of using all the potentials of the program (elaborating associate agreement, concluding comprehensive free trade agreement and relaxing visa regime between Armenia and EU).



Discussion also focused on Karabakh conflict settlement and recent developments in Armenian-Turkish process, RA Foreign Ministry's press service reported.

The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the European Communities.



On 1 December 2009 the Lisbon Treaty came into force after a protracted and controversial birth. This reformed many aspects of the EU but in particular created a permanent President of the European Council, the first of which is Herman van Rompuy, and a strengthened High Representative, Catherine Ashton.