December 8, the first meeting of the Foreign Ministers within the framework of Eastern Partnership program starts in Brussels.

December 7, RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan left for Belgium to participate in the event.

The ministerial meeting will be the first since the program in last May launched.

Eastern Partnership project was officially set up at Prague summit (8 May 2009), proposed by EU on Polish and Swedish initiative. The program is aimed at deepening of EU relations with 6 states — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus.

In the frames of the program, EU has to allocate €600m till 2013 to the mentioned countries aimed at strengthening of state institutions, border control and assistance to small companies.

A.G.