ARMENIA AND THE EU’S EUROPEAN NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY PROGRAM
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Integration into the European structures is a priority task of Armenia’s foreign policy, which is shown by the republic’s cooperation with the EU, Council of Europe, NATO, and other organizations, as well as by its bilateral relations with continental states. What is more, Armenia is nurturing the hope of becoming a full-fledged member of the European Union in the future. On 14 June, 2004, the European Union Council made a decision to include the South Caucasian states in its European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) program and approved the ENP Strategy Paper submitted in May of the same year by the European Commission.1 The European Neighborhood Policy program is based on the Wider Europe-Neighborhood: A New Framework for Relations with our Eastern and Southern Neighbors project,2 prepared by the European Commission in March 2003. The purpose of this document is to develop a universal, proportional approach which also includes financial mechanisms and should meet the development requirements of international and regional cooperation on the periphery of the enlarging European Union. We will note that this document was adopted right before the most extensive enlargement of the European Union to date—in May 2004, ten new states swelled this organization’s ranks. In October 2004, the European Commission began preparing Country Reports for the Southern Caucasus, which will form the basis of specific Action Plans between the EU and the region’s states within the ENP. The Report on Armenia was presented in March 2005, after which official Erevan and the EU began drawing up an Action Plan for Armenia under the ENP program. What is more, both sides intend to develop their relations within the already existing Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), which came into force as early as 1999.
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See: COM (2004) 374 final, Brussels, 12 May, 2004.
See: COM (2003) 104 final, Brussels, 11 March, 2003.
See: K.E. Smith, “The Outsiders: The European Neighbourhood Policy,” International Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 4, 2005,pp. 763-767.
See: A Secure Europe in a Better World: European Security Strategy, Part II, Strategic Objectives: Building Security in Our Neighbourhood, Brussels, 12 December, 2003.
See: EU Security and Defense Policy: The First Five Years (1999-2004), ed. by N. Gnesotto, ISS-EU, Paris, 2004,p. 51.
See: European Neighbourhood Policy Country Report, Armenia, COM (2005) xxxxxx.
European Neighbourhood Policy Recommendations for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and for Egypt and Lebanon,Communication from the Commission to the Council. COM (2005) xxx, xx February 2005.
See: D. Lynch, “The EU: Toward a Strategy,” The South Caucasus: A Challenge for the EU, Chaillot Papers, No.
, ISS-EU, Paris, December 2003, pp. 171-179.
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