Three agreements with PACE
Armenia will start negotiations over the facilitation of entrance visas and reception agreements with the European Union on February 27. This will facilitate the entrance to European Union-member countries for several groups, as was stated at the National Assembly.
Chairperson of the National Assembly's standing committee on European integration Naira Zohrabyan today had a meting with Special Representative for the Eastern Partnership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ambassador Klaas Fan Der Tempel.
Zohrabyan presented the negotiations over the Armenia-EU Associated Agreement and mentioned that they were rather active.
The guests were interested in several issues related to the upcoming parliamentary elections, particularly on how the political parties were preparing for the elections and what expectations they had from the international observatory missions.
Zohrabyan provided the guests with comprehensive information about the preparatory stage for the upcoming parliamentary elections and attached importance to the activities of the OSCE and PACE long-term missions.
Zohrabyan mentioned that Armenia already had a preliminary agreement with the PACE according to which the observatory mission will be presented with the questions and concerns of al political parties participating in the elections and which issue the international observers should especially focus on. Klaas Fan Der Tempel attached importance to that, mentioning that he would do everything possible to make sure Armenia receives many long-term observers and that all the concerns that the political forces mention are taken into account, reports the NA press service.
