The draft Declaration of the summit of " Eastern partnership ", which began on Thursday in Riga, contains provisions on visa-free regime for Georgia and Ukraine with the European Union in 2016, said the Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma.
"The Ministers of foreign Affairs yesterday said to me that they finalized the text. Look at today, " he said, answering negatively to the question whether the draft Declaration provision on visa-free regime for Georgia and Ukraine in 2016.
The Prime Minister Also recalled that in the case of Georgia Before the end of the year must be placed another report of the European Commission." If these countries are to meet all the criteria, by the end of the year the European Commission will present a new report, and may be in the coming year they will be a visa - free regime, "she added, RIA" Novosti ". First source said that the European Union will be able to note the visa regime with Ukraine only after graduation or complete freeze on its territory of armed conflict. Similarly, on Thursday, the Western media said that Belarus and Armenia refused to sign the final document because of the wording in the Crimea. The source revealed that Before the current time "in the fourth paragraph of the text appeared the phrase" annexation of Crimea ". However, the Ukrainian media said that the final Declaration will still be condemning " the annexation of Crimea." The fourth summit of "Eastern partnership" opened on Thursday in Riga." Eastern partnership - the EU-funded project on development of cooperation with European and Transcaucasian Soviet republics. 3 of the six countries participating in the project - Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in 2014 signed the Treaty on the Union with the EU. Russian envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov have said before, that work on a final Declaration rather tense: some countries want to strengthen anti-Russian orientation, and others that create obstacles. Prior to this, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Belarus Alena Kupchyna told, the summit of "Eastern partnership" may be the last in the case of promotion of members of the meeting of the anti-Russian subjects.

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