Press Release: Eastern Partnership Summit to strengthen EU links with Eastern Europe and South Caucasus

The first Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit in Prague on 7 May will gather leaders from the EU Member States, EU institutions and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine to launch this new framework of reinforced bilateral and multilateral cooperation. This ambitious initiative will lead to deepening of political and economic relations, more energy security, increased mobility and will give an additional boost to pro-democratic and market oriented reforms in partner countries.

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European Commission: SPEECH/09/216: Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/09/216&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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