OSKANYAN LEFT FOR MOSCOW

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[05:53 pm] 05 April, 2006

The RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan left for Moscow on official
visit. He will meet the RF Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the
secretary of the RF Security Council Sergey Ivanov, as well as the
OSCE Minsk group Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov.

Within the framework of the Moscow visit there will be discussions
about different issues of the Armenian-Russian relations including
mutual cooperation in different fields. A special place will be given
to the consultations about the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.

Within the framework of the three-day visit Vardan Oskanyan will
visit the Moscow Carnegie center where he will render a lecture titled
“Southern Caucasus: Cooperation and Security”.

Oskanyan will also give an interview to the newspaper “Rossiyskaya
Gazeta” and the TV Company “Russia Today”.

The Foreign Minister will return to Armenia on April 7.