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“We expect that the EU member states, as our partners, will fully engage themselves and display consistency in lifting the illegal blockade of Armenia by Turkey,” Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said in his speech at the third Summit of the Heads of State of the Eastern Partnership countries in Vilnius. 

Speaking about the further development of Eastern Partnership, Serzh Sargsyan said, “Our major objective is to form such mechanisms with the European Union that on the one hand would reflect the deep nature of our social-political and economic relationship, and on the other – would be compatible with other formats of co-operation. The Eastern Partnership should become a natural bridge that promotes integration from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. In this sense we are committed to undertake consistent efforts towards building a more inclusive Europe free of dividing lines.”

“This very understanding is the guiding milestone of our foreign policy, and it is precisely in this vein that we seek to settle problems with our neighbors by attempting to internalize the success stories of reconciliation in Europe at a regional level. I believe that consistent adoption of the European values can help Turkey to reconcile with its own past. Today thousands of Turkish people condemn the Armenian Genocide and stand by us to commemorate the victims of the Genocide. I believe that on the eve of the Armenian Genocide Centennial the Turkish authorities should be able to demonstrate will and decline the policy of denial. In order to continue its integration with the European Union in a capacity of a European nation Turkey still faces the challenge of opening the last closed border in Europe and establishing diplomatic relations with Armenia. We expect that the EU member states, as our partners, will fully engage themselves and display consistency in lifting the illegal blockade of Armenia by Turkey,” the President said.