Azerbaijan,EU achieve progress on Association Agreement - Ambassador

By AzerNews

A progress in various fields between Azerbaijan and the European Union has been made at the plenary session on Association Agreement in Brussels, Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan, Ambassador Roland Kobia said on Monday.

According to Kobia, progress has been made especially in legal issues. These negotiations will be completed by the Vilnius summit.

"We have also made ??progress in the economic field, and some questions have been closed," Kobia added.

He stressed that negotiations on foreign policy and security are still underway.

The EU and Azerbaijan are maintaining relations under the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which was signed in 1996 and came into force in 1999. In 2009, the EU passed a decision to sanction negotiations on the conclusion of bilateral association agreements of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia with the organization. These agreements will be a new practical instrument to replace the bilateral action plans.

Azerbaijan is also included in the EU's Eastern Partnership program, adopted at the initiative of Poland and Sweden and approved at the EU summit in Brussels in 2008. The Eastern Partnership is aimed at political and economic rapprochement of six post-Soviet states with the EU.