On Thursday 11 June, the chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, David McAllister (EPP, German), the heads of Parliament’s delegations to Euronest and for relations with the South Caucasus, Sergey Lagodinsky (the Greens/EFA group, German) and Nils Ušakovs (S&D, Latvian), Nathalie Loiseau (Renew Europe, French), who heads Parliament’s election mission, Miriam Lexmann (EPP, Slovak), rapporteur for Armenia, and the head of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group for Armenia, Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D, Spanish), called on the EU to take measures to help Yerevan. Armenia, which is moving closer to the European Union, is facing Russian retaliatory measures (see EUROPE 13881/20).
“We encourage [the EU to take] further and increased measures to strengthen Armenia’s resilience, in particular to support Armenia’s economic diversification and foster EU-Armenia trade, such as through the adoption of EU autonomous trade measures”, they highlighted in a joint statement.
The MEPs also acknowledged the need to move swiftly towards visa liberalisation and the rapid deployment of the EU’s new partnership mission.
See the statement: https://aeur.eu/f/mau (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)