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    EU Enlargement Chief: Bloc wants good ties with Eastern Neighbors, Central Asia

    15:06, 03 Jan 2015


    The European Union should respect countries that do not wish to have
    closer relations with it and should look for ways to build relations
    with them as well, European Commissioner for European Neighborhood
    Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said in an interview
    with BNS, Interfax reports.

    Speaking about the six countries participating in the Eastern
    Partnership program, i.e. Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan,
    Georgia and Armenia, Hahn pointed out that these are different
    countries with different ideas as to how they should build their
    relationships with the EU, and the EU should work with all of them, as
    it cannot choose neighbors for itself.

    It is critically important now to understand that Europe should decide
    what its interests are, and these fundamental interests essentially
    are peace and growth, especially considering the EU's neighbors, he
    said.

    The EU will do all it can to help the neighboring countries implement
    the rule-of-law principles and improve their standards of living, Hahn
    said. While it is easier and more efficient to cooperate with
    countries wishing to have closer relations with the EU, the EU should
    also respect the countries whose ideas are different, Hahn said in
    commenting on the approach that Latvia has chosen toward its
    relationships with the Eastern Partnership countries during its
    chairmanship of the Council of the European Union.

    Good relations with different countries, including Central Asian ones,
    which Latvia has declared among the priorities of its chairmanship,
    are in the EU's best interests, he said.

    The world is multi-polar at the beginning of the 21st century, with no
    hegemony of one power, the U.S., as it was at the end of the 20th
    century, and with no competition between two powers, the U.S. and the
    USSR, Hahn said. The multi-polar arrangement meets the EU interests,
    as the EU is not a military power, and therefore it is interested in
    good relations with different countries, including the Central Asian
    ones, he said.


    http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/01/03/eu-enlargement-chief-bloc-wants-good-ties-with-eastern-neighbors-central-asia/



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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