Euronest meeting ended with progresses despite the assembly disagreement on Nagorno Karabkh issue

At the second meeting celebrated in Baku, Azerbaijan, between MEPs and MPs of Eastern partners, the Euronest interparliamentary adopted five resolutions from a wide range of issues among which they are warning about common energy security threats or calling for more support for economic approximation of Eastern partners. However, Nagorno Karabakh was one of the most dividing issues in Euronest parliamentary assembly.

The Euronest second meeting, the interparlamentary assembly between MEPs and MPs of Eastern partners which was inaugurated in May 2011, ended with the adoption of five resolutions with regard the energy and security, a stronger role for parliamentary democracy and civil society as well as economic reform assistance to the EU's Eastern neighbours.

In particular, the agreements reached between MEPs and MPs concern common energy security threats, to strengthen the role and place of parliaments to resist more robustly future challenges to democracy, more support for economic approximation of Eastern partners, and an urgent resolution calling for Ukraine's former Prime-minister Yulia Tymoshenko to be provided proper healthcare.

On the other hand, the Euronest meeting was also qualified as a success for the progress done on issues such as the ability of Armenia and Azerbaijan to sit at the same table despite their difficulties. However, Nagorno Karabakh proved to be one of the most dividing issues in this parliamentary assembly. Co-President MEP Kristian Vigenin stressed that Euronest was not the "format" intended to solve bilateral conflicts.