European Union envoy: Eastern Partnership summit to set new goals for future partnership

  • by Michele Ross
  • in Sci-tech
  • — Nov 24, 2017
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The final text of this year's declaration features the same language as the Riga declaration concerning the potential future European Union accession of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, each of which have signed Association Agreements with the 28-member bloc.

But with Russian Federation and the war in eastern Ukraine off the official agenda, the Eastern Partnership summit looks likely to be more of a stock-taking exercise than a substantive statement of intent.

The welcoming ceremony of the EU Eastern Partnership (EaP) Summit took place in Brussels.

Another paragraph of the Joint Declaration emphasizes that all the conflicts within the Eastern Partnership countries should be resolved on the basis of the norms and principles of global law.

Instead it simply calls for "renewed efforts to promote the peaceful settlement of conflicts in the region" - a sharp contrast to the strong language in 2015, which criticised Russia's annexation of Crimea outright. All of them are former members of the Soviet bloc.

He noted that during the summit the existing problems will be discussed and new goals will be set for the future partnership.

Arriving at a security summit in Brussels, Mrs May said Russian Federation wanted to "tear our collective strength apart".

The Ukrainian government delegation at the high-level meeting is headed by President Petro Poroshenko.

"It's a courtship process - the more positive messaging, the more we date, the more our society is resilient to messaging from Moscow", he told reporters in Brussels.

Nor did the statement refer to the bitter row between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabakh, which nearly flared into a full-scale war a year ago.

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