Ilham Aliyev left for Prague to the EU summit "Eastern Partnership"

The summit of the EU "Eastern Partnership" opens today in Prague with the participation of heads and members of governments of six countries: Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Armenia and Belarus .

As expected, the summit will be attended by the Presidents of the Czech Republic - Milos Zeman , Austria

- Heinz Fischer , Lithuania - Dalia Grybauskaite , Poland - Bronislaw Komorowski , Slovakia - Ivan Gašparovič , as well as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Jan Björklund and the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule.

Czech President Milos Zeman will host at his official state residence at Prague Castle. The Head of the Czech Republic said that the events in Ukraine “evolve dramatically”, so the Ukrainian theme will be one of the most important. "The Czech Republic by all means supports Georgia and Moldova to come closer to the EU. This also applies to Ukraine's rapprochement with the EU, and to supporting cooperation with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus," the statement by Zeman says.

"Eastern Partnership" (EaP ) is a program of open cooperation between the EU and six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan , Belarus, Georgia , Moldova and Ukraine. The program does not provide for EU membership, but involves political and economic rapprochement. Implementation of the EP program involves cooperation with partner countries on the basis of four thematic platforms: for democracy, for economic integration and convergence with EU policies, energy security, and relations between people. Participants in the program Eastern Partnership note that this initiative “is not anti-Russian”.

The summit of Eastern Partnership, 28-29 November 2013 took place in Vilnius on the background of the unexpected decision by Kiev not to sign the Ukraine Association Agreement with the EU. Then mass demonstrations began on the Maidan, which led to large-scale political and economic crisis in Ukraine. -02D-