On July 6, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Edward Nalbandian received John Kjaer, Head of the Unit for South Caucasus, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus of the External Relations Directorate General of the European Commission and Raul de Luzenberger, the EU Ambassador to Armenia.

Mr. Kjaer arrived in Armenia for participating in the first session of the Armenia-EU Justice, Freedom and Security Cooperation Subcommittee.

Edward Nalbandian assured Armenia’s determination for the launch of negotiations over the Association Agreement on July 19, 2010, as well as for the Agreement on visa facilitation regime with the EU.

John Kjaer positively assessed the results of the first session of the Armenia-EU Justice, Freedom and Security Cooperation Subcommittee and added that the negotiations with Armenian over the Agreements on visa facilitation regime and readmission between the EU and Armenian could start at the end of this year.
The sides discussed the preparatory works of negotiations on the Association Agreement.