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TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLE NOT INCLUDED IN EASTERN PARTNERSHIP DECLARATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.05.2009 17:53 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The final text of Eastern Partnership Declaration
to be signed in Prague was modified during the EU Summit in
Brussels. Project member-states were defined as "Eastern European
partners" or "partner countries", and simplified visa regime among
EU member states was extended for a longer term. As reported by
Euobserver, Germany and the Netherlands forced the changes, concerned
that "European countries" sounds too pro-enlargement.
Meanwhile, Georgia and Azerbaijan failed to push in a clause
that the 33 countries should respect each other's "territorial
integrity". Instead, the document calls on parties to obey principles
and norms of international law.
According to Alexander Vondra, Prime Minister of Czech Republic,
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
and Italian and Spanish Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi and José
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero won't attend the summit.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will represent Germany, and José
Manuel Barroso will represent the European Commission.
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.05.2009 17:53 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The final text of Eastern Partnership Declaration
to be signed in Prague was modified during the EU Summit in
Brussels. Project member-states were defined as "Eastern European
partners" or "partner countries", and simplified visa regime among
EU member states was extended for a longer term. As reported by
Euobserver, Germany and the Netherlands forced the changes, concerned
that "European countries" sounds too pro-enlargement.
Meanwhile, Georgia and Azerbaijan failed to push in a clause
that the 33 countries should respect each other's "territorial
integrity". Instead, the document calls on parties to obey principles
and norms of international law.
According to Alexander Vondra, Prime Minister of Czech Republic,
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
and Italian and Spanish Prime Ministers Silvio Berlusconi and José
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero won't attend the summit.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will represent Germany, and José
Manuel Barroso will represent the European Commission.