YEREVAN, NOVEMEMBER 17, ARMENPRESS. Armenia highlights its involvement in Eastern Partnership programs, “Armenpress” reports Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian told in a press conference of delegation heads of EaP countries.

“We had a productive discussion with our partners, referring to the results of the Riga summit. It was of key importance for the development of the relations between the EU and partner countries, while the declaration adopted in the framework of the summit put valuable emphasis and set the main guidelines for the development of relations between the Member States and partnering states on both bilateral and multilateral formats. The implementation of the provisions of the Riga summit has been in the focus of our activities for the last two years. As for Armenia, I can say we managed to record some achievements in the passing year. We have joint a number of EU programs”, Nalbandian said.

He hoped that talks on visa liberalization will soon kick off.

“We also expect to launch negotiations on joining the agreement of to Common Aviation Area. EU’s authorization of the talks is required for starting the talks, which we expect will be granted in early December”, Armenian Foreign Minister said, noting that the assistance of the EU for years has had a significant impact on the reform implementation in Armenia and reinforcement of institutional capacities of the country.