The European Commissioner for European neighbourhood policy, will visit Armenia
Hamlet Matevosyan. EU Commissioner for European neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations Johannes Hahn on Wednesday will arrive in Yerevan, said Last news in the EU delegation in Armenia.
during the visit, Khan will meet with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of international economic integration and reform Vache Gabrielyan.
on the same day will be held dialogues with the European Commissioner the foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian and a joint press conference. Also planned Khan speech at the fourth plenary meeting of the parliamentary Assembly of Euronest, which opened on Tuesday in Yerevan. In the evening the anticipated meeting between the Commissioner, the commissioners of the opposition parties - Prosperous Armenia, Armenian national Congress Armenian revolutionary Federation "Dashnaktsutyun" and " Heritage ".
It was planned that Yerevan will sign the EU Treaty of Union and the free trade area in November 2013 in the Vilnius summit of " Eastern partnership ". However, two months prior to this said about Armenia's intention to join the Customs Union and participate in the Eurasian integration. Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed in may 2014 in Astana the Treaty on the Eurasian economic Union (EEU), which entered into force on 1 January 2015. The second of January to the EEC was joined by Armenia.
The Euronest parliamentary Assembly, which presents the deputies of the European Parliament and parliaments of the member States of the EU program " Eastern partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine), is the parliamentary component of the Eastern partnership.
The initiative "Eastern partnership" was launched by Poland and Sweden, and approved at the EU conference in Brussels in 2008, formally established in may 2009 in Prague. The goal of the program is the convergence of the EU with Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Belarus without their adoption in the EU. The program provides a significant increase in the level of political engagement, a broad integration of former Soviet republics in the EU economy, the increase provided them with financial assistance and enhancing energy security.
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