BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

20/06/2008

European Union leaders approve Polish-Swedish eastern policy proposal

WARSAW. JUNE 20. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Leaders of European Union member states and institutions, meeting for the European Council summit in Brussels, approved the Polish-Swedish proposal for the EU's eastern dimension of the European Neighborhood Policy.

"The European Council agrees on the need to further promote regional cooperation among the EU's eastern neighbors and between the EU and the region," reads the presidency's conclusions document adopted by the summit on Friday.

During a meeting of EU's foreign ministers in May, Poland and Sweden tabled a plan to set up a new EU eastern partnership for Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The initiative is intended to reinforce the bloc's ties with its eastern neighbors and to give some of them a perspective of future EU membership. The EU's current European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) does not make a distinction between the bloc's eastern and southern neighbors. The policy is also not committal over the future membership of the EU's neighbors.

Source:

http://www.interfax.com/5/404739/news.aspx

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