ArmInfo.The second part of the Road Map to fulfill the activities provided for in the framework of the Comprehensive and Extended Partnership Agreement will be approved in the near future.
This hope expressed the Vice-Premier Mger Grigoryan during the 20th meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission held on March 10, which coordinates the implementation of the implementation of the provisions of the agreement.
According to the press service of the RA Government, at the beginning of the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister congratulated all members of the Commission with the completion of the process of ratifying the agreement and its entry into force.
During the meeting, Deputy Minister of Economy Varos Simonyan presented a report on economic cooperation with the European Union, provided for by 6 part of the Agreement. The report covers 12 directions - trade, customs, technical barriers to trade, sanitation, phytosanitary services, e-commerce, current payments, capital transfer, capital movement, sustainable purchases, competition, state-enterprise and transparency.
Then the report was made by the Deputy Minister of Justice Christine Grigoryan, who presented the events provided for by the "Road Map" in the legal sphere, the status of these events and the process of their implementation for 2020-2021. The meeting participants exchanged views on the submitted reports, after which the speakers responded to the questions at the meeting of the NA deputies belonging to the Interdepartmental Commission. Recall that from March 1, 2021, an agreement on a comprehensive and expanded partnership of Armenia-EU has fully entered into force.
The document that was signed on November 24, 2017 in Brussels within the Summit of the Eastern Partnership, brought bilateral relations between the Republic of Armenia and the European Union to a new level of partnership, regulates the dialogue in the political and economic spheres, as well as industry cooperation and trade relations. Agreement between Armenia and the EU is a comprehensive document that provides a solid legal framework for the partnership of Armenia and the EU, planning cooperation in a wide variety of areas, such as justice, security, economics, agriculture and infrastructure of the environment and climate, education and science, culture , Health and so on. "The effective implementation of the Agreement will bring tangible results to our citizens, contributing to strengthening democracy, political, economic and social stability through large-scale reforms and with time will have an impact on the well-being and standard of living of our citizens," said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It should be emphasized that in the agreement on a comprehensive and expanded partnership agreement of Armenia-EU, the issue of the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is considered, and therefore the EU commitment is confirmed by maintaining the efforts and approaches of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, aimed at the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, in particular, Based on the equality and the rights of peoples to self-determination.