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In keynote speech Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Roland Kobia spoke about “Eastern Partnership” program and its purposes. The ambassador noted that the main purposes of this program are the political opinion, the attempt to escape from borders, the efforts to bring the peace, stability and prosperity to the region: “This program considers the signing of associative agreements with every country. The associative agreement is a deep cooperation form with the European Union, the highest form from this agreement is the admission to the European Union’s membership. The “Eastern Partnership” Program and associative agreement consider the simplification of visa regime, and it will give a chance to intensify the relations between people. The first meeting of new structure – “EURONEST” member countries’ Parliamentary Assembly was held within program on May 3.
In his speech, representative of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Alimirzamin Asgarov said that, the Eastern Partnership program increased Azerbaijan’s relations with the EU to the new level. He said that one of the main programs of the program was visa simplification. MFA representative assessed the European Parliaments last resolution on Azerbaijan as follows: “This resolution cause many questions, this is a bilateral and politically motivated documents. This resolution doesn’t respond to the character of Azerbaijan’s relations with the EU. Touching on the victory of Azerbaijani representatives in the “Eurovision-2011” song contest, Asgarov called it a sample of Azerbaijan’s integration to the European Union.
The discussions will continue at the conference on panels “democracy, stability and management of the borders”, “economic integration and coordination to the European Union’s policy”, “energy, climatic changes and environment”, “relations between people”. The employees of EU representation in Azerbaijan, representatives of the MFA, representatives of diplomatic corpses accredited in Azerbaijan will attend the conference.
