Negotiations on a new treaty between the European Union and Armenia will likely progress rapidly after they are formally authorized by the EU member states later this year, according to a senior European diplomat.
In an interview with RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am), Traian Hristea, head of the EU Delegation in Yerevan, confirmed that the bloc's executive body, the European Commission, hopes to receive a "mandate" for the talks at next month's EU summit in Latvia's capital Riga.
The talks will center on a deal that will serve as a less ambitious alternative to a planned Association Agreement which was cancelled by the EU after Armenia's abrupt decision in 2013 to join a Russian-led union of ex-Soviet states. Armenian and EU officials completed last month a "scoping exercise" aimed at identifying concrete areas of closer ties to be covered by the deal. The European Commission is now due to present its results to the 28 member states.
Armenian News
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