Haykakan Zhamanak: New EU-Armenia deal to be signed in Riga
The EU Eastern Partnership summit will take place in Riga in May 2015. Representatives of Armenia and the EU have reached an agreement to sign a new deal on the sidelines of the summit, Haykakan Zhamanak reports.
According to the newspaper, the authorities do not deny the report. The newspaper has learnt that the document may be called Association Agreement and repeat several provisions of the previous agreement. It will not contain provisions on deep and comprehensive free trade area. Only provisions on political cooperation will be reflected in the deal.
Sources told the newspaper that at the 2013 Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius representatives of Armenia and the EU exchanged negotiated packages of the Association Agreement, and stated that they are complete and can be signed at any moment.