The European Union has launched a plan for closer ties with six former Soviet republics. The Czech EU Presidency laid on a warm welcome in Prague.
The Eastern Partnership promotes democratic reform, economic integration and energy security.
Prague said Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine "are responding". To soothe Russian misgivings, one Czech official called it "an offer, not a projection of EU force".
The EU is keen to avert instability in a region that carries all its gas imports from Russia. Association agreements, visa liberalisation and free trade could follow with the six.
The EU will follow up the meeting with an overlapping energy summit this Friday. Its aim is to open a "southern corridor" for alternative energy supplies, mainly through the long-planned Nabucco pipeline, to deliver natural gas from the Caspian Sea region to Europe.
Turkish Racist
mkofranc 2 years ago
don`t forget that terorists are muslims , not christian !!! Remember That Europe will never let u to join them, you are muslims, and you haven`t anything european, and your teritory is Greec`s, Armenian`s occuped teritory,
mkofranc 2 years ago
u are really idiot.. Turkey must be kick u from the Nabuco.. just like what we did in BTC. Armenian borders are dangerous and having so many terrorists.. it s very hard to be sure of the pipeline where in armenia..
turkey is the king of the pipelines of the world.. Georgie-Azerbaijan-Turkiye.. and soon, Iran,Turkmeniastan,Kyzakistan will also join this partnership.. and armenia will just watch it. turkey will market asian energy
muzaffer0618 2 years ago
Idiot is you, Turkey hasn`t not energy resorces, not enough many ,
Don`t forget 4G country`s from 8G in europe!!!!!
bye ,
mkofranc 2 years ago
There are still stupid europens who doesn t want to NABUCO.. but same stupids are eager to russian insists. Turkey is working so hard for this project but europe still hasn t understood why they need this project. I think Europe is giving up her own future... No wonder, another Soviet trouble will appear very soon...
muzaffer0618 2 years ago
u idiot.. still living in the middle age.. when will u understand things are changed and everything is money, energy, weapon and long term strategies???
u really don t have brain.. still u stupids are into religion things.
muzaffer0618 2 years ago
it will be nice without muslims
mkofranc 2 years ago