ArmInfo. The deputy head of the European Commission's Directorate- General for Neighborhood Policy and Negotiations on Expansion (DG NEAR) Katarina Maternova sees no serious obstacles to ratifying the Agreement on a Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership between the European Union and the Republic of Armenia.
"I do not know whether the agreement will be ratified this year, but I do not see any serious obstacles," she said. According to the representative of the European Commission, ratification will not become difficult, as was the case with Ukraine. "Then there was a referendum in the Netherlands, which slowed down this process, and it was a much deeper agreement," explained Katerina Maternova. As for the ratification of the document by Armenia, then, she said, the process will be smooth.
"There have been constitutional changes in Armenia, they will choose a new prime minister, for this reason, it seems, everything will proceed smoothly from the Armenian side," she concluded.
On November 24, Armenia signed the Agreement on Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership with the EU on the sidelines of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels. The agreement will come into force after ratification by the parliaments of Armenia and 28 EU member states. The accent in the extensive 357- page document is put on the affirmation of justice, freedom, security in Armenia; reforming the Constitution and the judiciary; observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, etc. And all this with the active participation of the European Union in financing various projects in Armenia.