Final touches on the Syrian- EU Association Agreement

News reports in Damascus said that Syria and the European Union started to put the final touches in the last text of their Association Agreement.

Well-informed sources monitoring the process of the negotiations expected talks started since several days between representatives for the two sides, the main of them from the Syrian side are officials from the foreign ministry and from the European side the chairman of the negotiating European delegation Christian Luffler, to be closed shortly.

Should the meetings end to a total agreement, as expected, both Damascus and Brussels will sign the agreement as soon as possible.

According to the same sources "good agreement was reached," adding that the Syrian side and the European sides are satisfied over what was achieved." The Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara expected the elimination of differences over the mass destruction weapons between Syria and certain European states, expecting the agreement to be signed before the end of this year.