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    ARMENIA, EU TO BOOST COOPERATION

    Shanghai Daily, China
    Nov 29 2013

    Nov 29,2013

    YEREVAN, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Armenia and the European Union (EU)
    have agreed to further develop their cooperation, according to the
    official website of Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan.

    Armenia's main objective is to form functional mechanisms with the EU,
    which will reflect the depth of the social, political and economic
    relations between Armenia and the EU, while compatible with other
    formats of cooperation, Sargsyan said.

    "We have high expectations from this summit and view it as an
    important stage for developing our relations on more meaningful and
    realistic bases", Sargsyan said in a speech delivered at the two-day
    EU Eastern Partnership Summit, which closed on Friday in Vilnius,
    capital of Lithuania.

    The EU and Armenia released a joint statement at the Vilnius Summit
    on Friday, saying that both sides are ready to develop cooperation
    further.

    The Eastern Partnership was jointly initiated by the EU, its member
    states and the Eastern European partner countries, namely Armenia,
    Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, in May 2009.

    Armenia was previously scheduled to seal an Association Agreement
    and a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with the EU at the summit.

    The EU pulled out from the process after Sargsyan announced Armenia
    would join the Customs Union in September.

    Georgia and Moldova pre-signed the Association Agreement with the EU
    at the Vilnius Summit, but Ukraine failed to.

    The EU and Armenia would continue their cooperation in different ways,
    officials said.

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