Poland to table EU partnership for eastern states
(WARSAW) - Poland wants to spearhead partnership agreements between the European Union and as yet unspecified eastern states, the country's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
"The initiative is being prepared jointly with Sweden. It was recently presented to the European Commission, which has reacted positively and is currently being informally consulted with member states and the Slovenian presidency," Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski told AFP.
Warsaw wants to table the proposal Monday at a meeting of foreign minister from the EU's 27 member states in Brussels, Paszkowski added.
"The proposal aims to reinforce bilateral cooperation within the framework of European good-neighbour policy and to create the basis for multilateral co-operation," he said.
The spokesman, however, refused to specify which countries would be asked to join the partnership and the content of the policy.
According to Poland's liberal Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, the proposal is aimed at ex-Soviet states namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and possibly Belarus.
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