REUTERS
Officials at the EU’s Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, Latvia were reported to be still haggling over the wording of the summit’s final declaration as of 0800 on Friday, with some participants objecting to the summit position on Crimea.
A senior European diplomat told a UNIAN correspondent that there is an ongoing debate about the position of Belarus and Armenia regarding a certain phrase in the declaration text - "illegal annexation of Crimea," - and between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the position on the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The plenary session of the summit was scheduled for 0900, and it was expected that during the meeting Ukraine and the European Union could sign a memorandum of understanding on allocation of EUR 1.8 billion in macro-financial assistance for Ukraine.
The summit will end in the second half of the day with a press conference of the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, President of European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, and Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma.
As UNIAN reported earlier, EU has agreed on Riga summit declaration with visa-free prospects for Ukraine.