ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
February 3, 2005 Thursday
Russia FM to visit Armenia on Feb 17
By Tigran Petrosyan
YEREVAN
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Armenia on February
17, Itar-Tass learnt at the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
The ministry didn’t specify what issues will be discussed during the
visit. However, as observers believe, during talks between the
Russian foreign minister and the Armenian leadership, the sides will
discuss a wide range of issues of strategic partnership between
Russia and Armenia, problems of international life and regional
security, as well as settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
According to spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander
Yakovlev, Sergei Lavrov intends to make trips to all CIS capitals. He
“plans to visit in the near future all states of the Commonwealth to
discuss the process of reforming the CIS.” Russia, as Yakovenko
noted, “heads this work in the Commonwealth and now is collecting
proposals from member-countries.”