Joint Proposal for a Council Decision on the Union position within the Cooperation Council established by the EU-Armenia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement

Relations between the EU and Armenia are currently based on the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Armenia, which entered into force on 1 July 1999, and on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) framework reviewed in 2015.

The key principles guiding bilateral relations in this context are more differentiation between partner countries and greater ownership by these countries.

The Parties have agreed on Partnership Priorities, as foreseen in the ENP Review. These priorities are grouped according to the priorities agreed in the Eastern Partnership Summit held in Riga in May 2015.

The adoption of the Partnership Priorities is envisaged by a Decision of the EU-Armenia Cooperation Council after the adoption by the Council of an EU position within the Cooperation Council. The adopted Partnership Priorities will be the basis for programming under the European Neighbourhood Instrument.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: JOIN(2017)024: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=JOIN:2017:024:FIN

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