RA FOREIGN MINISTER TO PAY WORKING VISITS TO U.S., RUSSIA AND SYRIA

YEREVAN, MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian will be in the U.S. on a working visit on March
26-31. On March 27, Minister Oskanian with U.S. Secretary of State
Condolezza Rice will take part in the ceremony of signing an agreement
between the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Armenia. A meeting
with OSCE Minsk Group American Co-chairman Steven Mann is to take
place the same day. On March 28, V.Oskanian will have a press
conference at Washington National Press Club. On March 27, Oskanian
will make a speech at a conference dedicated to Armenian issues
organized with joint efforts of the Armenian Assembly of America,
Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and the Eastern Diocese of
the Armenian Church, as well as will have meetings with
representatives of the American Armenian community this and the
previous day. On March 29, Minister Oskanian will leave for New York.
On March 30, he will have meetings with UNDP Coordinator Kemal
Dervish, as well as General Assembly Chairman Jan Eliasson. On March
31, V.Oskanian is to meet with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The
same day Minister Oskanian will make a speech under the title
“Building of Statehood in the Caucasus” at Columbia University. As
Noyan Tapan was informed from RA Foreign Ministry Press and
Information Departmemt, on April 6-7, Vartan Oskanian is to pay a
working visit to Moscow where he will have meetings with RF Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov and RF Security Council Secretary Igor
Ivanov. On April 7-9, Minister Oskanian will be in Syria on a working
visit where he will meet with President Bashar Asad and Foreign
Minister Valid Muallim. On April 9, Minister Oskanian will take part
in the festivities of the 100th anniversary of foundation of the
Armenian General Benevolent Union and 75th anniversary of foundation
of the Armenian Youth Association, as well as ceremony of opening of
the Gyulbenkian Center in Aleppo.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress