The Eastern Partnership is primarily a development of institutional structures, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said at a conference entitled “Eastern Partnership: national and European development”, Trend reports.
Although Armenia does not strive to join the European Union, the state is devoted to implementation of European values into its society, Nalbandian said.
The prime minister discussed the summit of the Eastern Partnership in Warsaw.
Nalbandian underlined the role of inter-parliamentary relations with the EU and its effect on civil society within the framework of European integration.
The Eastern Partnership is a Polish-Swedish initiative within the policy of good neighbourhood, aimed at improving ties with six post-Soviet states: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Moldavia, Belarus and Ukraine.
The EU is to provide them with 600 million euros by 2013 for strengthening state institutions, control over borders and for support of minor companies. The foundation fund of the Eastern Partnership opened in Prague on May 7th, 2010.
