European Commissioner to visit Baku

European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule will visit Azerbaijan in a few weeks, the head of the EU office in Baku Roland Kobia told media today.

The purpose of the visit is to participate in the "Euronest" session in Baku. Fule will meet with Azerbaijani officials within the visit, Kobia said.

Relations between the EU and Azerbaijan were established in 1990s. The European Commission supported the CIS countries within the TACIS program.

There is an agreement on partnership and cooperation agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan. It entered into force in 1999. The countries cooperate within the European Neighbourhood Policy, has been operating since 2003.

Relations between Azerbaijan and the EU entered a new phase - a partnership within the EU Eastern Partnership in May 2008 launched by Poland and Sweden.


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