Baku. Malahat Najafova – APA. The European Union should start negotiations on new association agreements with Azerbaijan and Armenia, said Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics.
He made the remarks addressing the meeting of Eastern Partnership Foreign Ministers in Brussels on May 23.
The minister called on the EU to actively support the Eastern Partnership countries
The citizens of the Eastern Partnership countries must feel practical benefits from cooperation with the EU, said the Latvian FM, while emphasizing that the implementation of agreements on the deep and comprehensive free trade area, visa liberalization, and closer sectoral cooperation are the right and necessary steps that the EU must take.
Minister Rinkevics called for broader cooperation in transport, transit, energy, commerce, health and the IT sector.
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