YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. On February 18, RA President Serzh Sargsyan met with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby. Serzh Sargsyan attaching importance to further deepening of cooperation with the European Union expressed confidence that the 2009-2011 actions plan adopted at the National Security Council sitting gives a possibility to move forward in that direction. During the meeting the interlocutors touched upon cooperation within the framework of EU Eastern Partnership initiative, Nagorno Karabakh settlement negotiations process, Armenian-Turkish dialogue, as well as the process of reforms in Armenia. Attaching importance to the regional cooperation component of the Eastern Partnership being launched, S. Sargsyan expressed the hope that the European Union will be consistent to ensure loyalty of all countries involved in that initiative to that priority. P. Semneby reaffirmed the intention of Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to visit Armenia soon according to the agreement reached within the framework of S. Sargsyan's visit to Brussels. According to the RA President's Press Office, Tomasz Knothe, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland presiding over in EU, Serge Smessow, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to RA, as well as Raul de Luzenberger, the head of the European Commission delegation in Armenia, took part in the meeting.

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