MINSK, 22 September (BelTA) – The implementation of the Eastern Partnership projects can start in 2010, Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Valery Voronetsky said during a session of the House of Representatives’ permanent commission for international affairs and links with the CIS on 22 September. There have been worked out all major projects in which Belarus focuses on transit infrastructure development, creation of transport corridors, transport services and simplification of customs procedures. “These issues have been discussed with Latvia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland. The European Commission is yet elaborating the mechanisms to discuss the projects. We forecast the implementation of the projects will start next year,” Valery Voronetsky said. The chairpersons of the parliamentary committees for international affairs of the Eastern Partnership member-states are expected to meet in Stockholm in autumn 2009. According to Valery Voronetsky, the session will aim at elaborating approaches to the interparliamentary cooperation between the EU organizations and the Eastern Partnership participants. “There are several issues that remain unsettled. In particular, it concerns Belarus’ institutionalization in the Eastern Partnership parliamentary structure. The European Parliament as well as several national parliaments offers to present Belarus in this structure in some other way that does not, actually, coincide with our expectations. We are trying to regulate the issue via the diplomatic canals. We suppose the issue can become one of those topping the agenda of the forthcoming session,” Valery Voronetsky said. БЕЛТА
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