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PRESS RELEASE

23-08-2005

Regular Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of
Independent States

On August 23, a regular session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) took place in Moscow under the
presidency of Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov.

Foreign Affairs Minister Vartan Oskanian headed the Armenian delegation to
the session.

The session’s agenda focused mainly on the preparation and adoption of
several documents to be presented during the CIS Summit to be held in Kazan,
Tatarstan on August 26.

The key themes of the agenda were issues relating to enhancing the
efficiency and improvement of the activities of Commonwealth bodies, draft
statements of heads of CIS states on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of
the UN and the Agreement for Humanitarian Cooperation of the Commonwealth of
Independent States.

The Foreign Affairs Ministers considered a decision to declare 2006, the
Year of the Commonwealth of Independent States and an appeal by the CIS
Heads of States to the people of the member states and international
community on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the accident at the
Chernobyl Electric Power Station.

Within the context of UN reforms, the Council of Foreign Ministers stressed
the importance of having inclusive reforms and their endorsement by the
majority of UN member states.

In the same evening, an unofficial meeting of the Co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk group and Foreign Affairs Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan took
place.

A regular meeting between the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the two countries
on Nagorno-Karabagh conflict resolution is scheduled for August 25 in
Moscow.