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The Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, Armen Ashotyan on Monday delivered a speech at the meeting of the Euronest PA Committee on Political Affairs, Human Rights and Democracy in Kiev, where he touched upon Armenia-EU relations, as well as the current phase of the negotiation process of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

In his remarks, Mr. Ashotyan highlighted the signing of the RA-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement in the Eastern Partnership Summit scheduled in Brussels. In this context, he noted that the agreement supposes qualitative progress in the level of the Armenia-EU relations, which in its turn will create an opportunity for more active cooperation, the Parliament’s press service reported. 

The Armenian official noted that the political part of the agreement is almost the same, as of the associate countries, and in this connection he underlined that within the framework of the principle ‘more for more,’ Armenia expects from the EU political support in the rise of the judicial system efficiency, the improvement of the democracy institutes and protection of human rights.

In his speech, Armen Ashotyan also referred to the Nagorno-Karabakh talks, noting that now the negotiations greatly are moving towards re-launching of the very negotiation process for the peaceful settlement. Regarding the issue, he noted that the peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been and remains within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs’ joint efforts and format, underlining the position of the European Parliament over the issue that all the conflicts in the Eastern Partnership countries are of unique character and require differentiated approach.

In regard to the future of the Eastern Partnership Armen Ashotyan highlighted the creation of the new approaches in the context of the new qualitative relations after the Summit and, perhaps, also Eastern Partnership + format, aiming to find new uniting solutions for further effective cooperation of the Eastern Partnership countries.