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Final declaration of the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga was adopted on Friday.

The Nagorno-Karabakh part of the declaration says that the summit participants reiterate their full support to the mediation efforts by the co-chairs of the Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, including at the level of Presidents and their statements since 2009.

The final declaration calls for full implementation of the Minsk accords on settling the Ukrainian conflict, confirms a commitment by all signatories to Ukraine's territorial integrity, and expresses full support for the OSCE Monitoring Mission in the country and reconciliation efforts by the Contact Group.

Its text contains no mention of instituting a visa-free regime for Ukraine and Georgia in 2016. The declaration, however, hails progress made by the two states toward easing visa requirements, saying that the issue will be raised again when Georgia and Ukraine complete the second set of EU visa-free travel requirements.