Luxembourg to host Eastern Partnership ministerial meeting

Baku. 10 October. REPORT.AZ/ The Eastern Partnership (EaP) ministerial meeting will be held in Luxembourg on October 15.

Report informs referring to the European Foreign Service that the meeting will bring together EU foreign ministers and their counterparts from the six Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine), as well as key stakeholders involved in the region.

The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini will chair the meeting.

The meeting will provide an opportunity to resume the political dialogue between the EU and its Eastern partners.

Foreign ministers will also take stock of the implementation of the partnership's commitments, including the priorities identified as the '20 deliverables for 2020'.

The latter were adopted at the last Eastern Partnership Summit in November 2017 with a view to achieve stronger economy, governance, connectivity and society.

The meeting will also be the opportunity to discuss first ideas to mark the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership due in May next year.

The Eastern Partnership program, aimed at bringing EU closer to its six eastern neighbors, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, started in 2009 at a summit in Prague. It was initiated by Poland and Sweden.