Progress in EU-Armenia relations?
The current Armenian delegation participated in today's session of the Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee for the last time.
Commission co-chair Naira Zohrabyan noted that the representatives of the new National Assembly will participate in the next session after the 2012 parliamentary elections.
"The political and economic reforms in Armenia are still in the focus of the European Union," Co-Chair of the Committee Milan Zabrnoch declared during the 12th Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee session held in Yerevan today.
"Progress has been made in relations between Armenia and the European Union in terms of the Associated Agreement, the preparation for the free trade agreement, the facilitation of visas and people's mobility. I hope there will be similar progress in Armenia's interior political life, particularly during the upcoming nationwide elections," Zabrnoch declared.
In the final declaration adopted at the end of the session, the sides placed main emphases on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution and the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.
"It has been recorded that the Armenian-Turkish relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process are two completely different processes and Turkey's act of linking those two processes is clearly condemnable," Chair of the NA Standing Committee on Euro-integration Naira Zohrabyan said.
The delegation of the European Union today reaffirmed that it views the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement only within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group's mandate.
