EU COMMISSAR WARNED SOUTH CAUCASIAN STATES OF SLOW AND UNCERTAIN PROCESS OF JOINING EUJuly 16, 2004 - 22:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Including the South Caucasian states in Enlarged Europe: New Neighbors program cannot guarantee further admission to the EU, EU Commissar Janosh Potoshnik told Liberty. In his words, the participation in the program only means that Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia expressed a wish to become members of the European Union. At the same time Mr. Potoshnik found that "from geographical, historical and cultural aspect the South Caucasian states have European roots". Therefore the answer will apparently be positive. However the EU Commissar warned that the process of joining will be a slow and uncertain one and called the South Caucasian states to display patience. According to him, including in New Neighbors program is already a victory and the states should avail themselves of the opportunity in corpore. The policy of "new neighborhood" from the economic standpoint is a step towards enlarged cooperation and deep integration into the implementation of reforms to be necessarily carried out", the EU Commissar said. Top stories Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took to social media to thank his Lithuanian counterpart for the contribution. President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Partner news | About 173 million drams and more than 30 beneficiary funds. "The Power of One Dram" is 4 years old In June 2020, the exclusive joint corporate social responsibility initiative of Idram and IDBank "The Power of One Dram" was launched. Aliyev travels to Turkey at Erdogan's invitation On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. CSTO budget “to be adjusted due to Yerevan’s non-payment of contributions” The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions. Russia sends note of protest to Armenia over envoy’s trip to Ukraine’s Bucha Russia has sent a note of protest to Armenia over the visit of Vladimir Karapetyan and Tigran Ter-Margaryan to Bucha. |