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Eastern Partnership Glossary produced

31 March 2010 15:22 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanova â€“ APA. A glossary comprising 27 terms commonly used in the framework of the EUâ€™s Eastern Partnership has been produced by the ENPI Info Centre, with the support of DG RELEX and EuropeAid. ENPI Info Centre told APA that the six-page â€˜Eastern Partnership glossaryâ€™ is available in English and Russian, as well as in the official languages of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. All the translations have been approved by the European Commission.

The aim of this unique publication - handbook is to assist people understand the terms and expressions used when referring to the Eastern Partnership, a policy that seeks to bring closer the EU and its six neighbours in the East, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

The publication, laid out in A to Z format and easy to print, covers a variety of terms and expressions, ranging from â€œapproximation to the EU acquisâ€ and â€œbilateral trackâ€ to â€œconditionalityâ€, â€œenhanced cooperationâ€, â€œflagship initiativesâ€ and â€œpanels to support the work of thematic platformsâ€. It also explains numerous policies, like the Black Sea Synergy, cooperation programmes like TRACECA and INOGATE, and includes some of the financial instruments available to the partner states such as SIGMA and TAIEX.

The â€˜Eastern Partnership Glossaryâ€™ is available in electronic version and can be found on the ENPI Info Centreâ€™s website.

It comes to supplement another glossary covering general terms related to the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and its financial mechanism, the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), also prepared by the ENPI Info Centre.