EUROPEAN UNION PAYS TO AZERBAIJAN SPECIAL ATTENTION
Having noted, that the main purpose of visit consists in discussion of the Plan of Activity for Azerbaijan in the frame of the New Neighborhood Policy of the European Union, P. Semnebey informed, that at meetings with officials of Azerbaijan he had comprehensive exchange of views in 9 basic directions of the plan. They cover settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, development of democratic institutes in the country, the human rights protection and supremacy of law, regional cooperation and other questions.
He has told that ‘though negotiations on the Plan of Activity yet have not completed, the successes, nevertheless, have been already reached, and there were only technical questions. The Plan opens new opportunities for the further rapprochement of Azerbaijan with the Union. Azerbaijan represents special value for the European Union. I consider, that Azerbaijan, too, is interested in establishment of wide contacts with EU', he stressed.
Noting, that at the meetings he held also discussed was the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, P. Semnebey has once again stated the position of the European Union in connection with the conflict and has emphasized, that EU supports peace settlement of the conflict and though directly is not engaged in its solution, nevertheless, can assist its elimination.
The Special Representative informed that now he would leave for Armenia where would also touch the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. At his words, in the meetings with the Armenian officials he is going also to focus the arsons committed by Armenians in the occupied areas.
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