Joint statement of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on Eastern Partnership Ministerial Meeting on Trade

On 7 May 2015 the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in close cooperation with the Commission organised the first Eastern Partnership Ministerial Meeting on Trade. The meeting was co-chaired by Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Edgars Rinkēvičs, and European Commissioner for Trade Ms Cecilia Malmström.

The EU Trade Ministers and their Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarus, Georgian, Moldovan and Ukrainian counterparts met in the afternoon of 7 May to discuss the achievements of the Eastern Partnership in the area of trade, as well as the opportunities and challenges to the further development of a successful trade dimension of the Eastern Partnership.