Brussels, 28/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Eastern Partnership summit will be held on 29 and 30 September in Warsaw, the deputy foreign minister for Poland, Krzysztof Stanowski, announced on 27 April, cited by the Polish press. The summit will take place without the participation of the Belarus delegation whose leaders have had a ban for travel within the EU imposed on them again after the violent repression of demonstrators that followed last December's elections. On the other hand, the heads of state and/or government of five other countries of the partnership (Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia) are expected to attend, with their counterparts of the 27 EU member states and the permanent president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, who will preside the summit. The Polish and Hungarian prime ministers, Donald Tusk and Victor Obama, will jointly chair the meeting, initially foreseen under the mandate of the Hungarian EU presidency of the Council (see EUROPE 10319). Poland, which is to hold the rotating presidency of the EU Council during the second half of 2011 also plans to organise the first business forum for the partnership on the sidelines of the meeting. Still in September, there are plans to hold meetings of a committee of the regions for Eastern Partnership affairs. (A.By./transl.jl)