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Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 24
Trend:
The new areas of further cooperation between the EU and Azerbaijan will be determined during the Eastern Partnership Summit, EU ambassador to Azerbaijan Kestutis Jankauskas said.
Jankauskas made the remarks at an event in Baku Nov. 24 dedicated to the completion of the twinning project entitled "Support to the State Statistical Committee in Modernization of the National Statistics System of the Republic of Azerbaijan in line with EU Standards".
"The Eastern Partnership Summit has kicked off in Brussels today,” he said. “The events that have occurred over the past two years will be discussed within the summit. Moreover, the current problems will be touched upon and further areas of cooperation will be determined there.”
Touching upon the ongoing negotiations on a comprehensive agreement between Azerbaijan and the EU, the ambassador added that the negotiations will continue following the summit.
"Azerbaijan and the EU will start to cooperate in new spheres, which will further strengthen the ties between us and will be useful for both sides," he said.
The 5th Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit kicked off in Brussels on November 24.
The heads of state and government of the EU member-states and six Eastern Partnership countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Armenia) will discuss further cooperation.
They will also sum up the results achieved following the Riga Summit in 2015. At the same time, special attention will be paid to the significant benefits obtained by the citizens of six Eastern Partnership countries.
EU outlined its approach to the Eastern Partnership as result-oriented. In this regard, the EU outlined 20 key tasks that should be implemented by 2020.