6th round of talks on trade and investment issues of Armenia-EU new framework agreement launched

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS. The 6th round of talks on trade and investment issues of the Armenia-EU new framework agreement has launched on February 15 in Yerevan, press service of the Ministry of Economic Development and Investments told “Armenpress”.

Armenia’s negotiation delegation is led by First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments Garegin Melkonyan. The EU delegation led by Petros Sourmelis, head of unit, the European Commission Directorate-General for Trade,is taking part in the talks.

During the talks it is expected to hold discussions on the agreement’s directions of “Trade in Services”, “Intellectual Property Rights”, “Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures”, as well as to summarize the talks on directions of “Trade in goods”, “Settlement of disputes”, “Transparency”, “Technical Barriers to Trade”, “Customs issues” (including the Protocol on mutual administrative support in customs affairs), “Competitiveness”, “Enterprises with state participation”, “Trade and Sustainable Development”.