RA FOREIGN MINISTER HAS MEETINGS WITH RF SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY, OSCE MG RUSSIAN CO-CHAIR AND RUSSIAN ARMENIAN BUSINESSMEN IN MOSCOW
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 06 2006
MOSCOW, APRIL 6, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian’s 3-day working visit to Moscow started on April
5. The same day in the evening Minister Oskanian met with Secretary
of RF Security Council Igor Ivanov. During the conversation the
sides touched upon the current state and development prospects of
Armenian-Russian bilateral relations, as well as exchanged thoughts
about a number of issues of mutual interest, regarding regional and
international security. In the morning of April 6, V.Oskanian met with
OSCE Minsk Group Russian Co-chairman Yuri Merzliakov at the Armenian
Embassy in RF. Then Minister Oskanian received a number of Russian
Armenian businessmen. At the meeting the Minister highly estimated the
latters’ interest and confidence in Armenia’s economic potential and
market. Expressing gratitute for the programs implemented in Armenia
by the Armenians from all parts of the world, Minister Oskanian also
mentioned the necessity to systematize this process. In particular,
presenting the program aimed at promoting the development of the
Armenian villages, V.Oskanian informed that it will be one of the
main issues to be submitted for discussion at the Armenia-Diaspora
third Forum to be held on September 18-19. At the meeting, during
which an interested dialogue on prospects of Armenia’s development
and Armenia-Diaspora cooperation in different spheres proceeded, the
businessmen expressed readiness to take part in these discussions and
to assume implementation of concrete programs. In the second half of
the day RA Foreign Minister made a speech under the title “Cooperation
and Security in the South Caucasus” at Moscow Carnegie Center,
which is one of the Russian leading research centers of political
and public sciences. Representatives of Russian state and political
circles, scientific-research and higher educational institutions of
Moscow, diplomatic missions in RF, Russian and foreign media had come
to listen to RA Foreign Minister’s speech. In the evening Minister
Oskanian will meet with the Armenian students of Moscow State Institute
of International Relations at RA Embassy. According to RA Foreign
Ministry Press and Information Department, in the morning of April
7 Vartan Oskanian will meet with RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.