July 24, 2006 - 18:29 AMT
Armenia and EU Accomplishing Action Plan Elaboration
Four circles of issues were discussed during the meeting with the EU delegation led by EU Special Representative Peter Semneby, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said at a news conference in Yerevan. "The first is the Armenia-EU cooperation. We have already proceeded to the final stage of the elaboration of the document and it will be ready till the end of the year. Then we assessed the current stage of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement and considered Armenia's participation in the European Neighborhood Policy, including the Armenia-Georgia and Armenia-Turkey relations. We also touched upon the upcoming parliamentary election," Vartan Oskanian said.

For his part Mr Semneby remarked that the documents on the Armenia-EU collaboration are based on the fundamental principles of democracy and that the forthcoming election will have a decisive role for the level of relations. He also informed he visited Georgia and Azerbaijan before arriving in Yerevan. "I discussed the Armenian-Georgian and Russian-Georgian relations, in part in the closing of Verkhny Lars checkpoint," Peter Semneby said.