VARTAN OSKANIAN PARTICIPATES IN CIS STATES GOREIGN MINISTERS COUNCIL
MEETING AND MEETS WITH YURI MERZLYAKOV

MOSCOW, APRIL 21, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A regular meeting of
the Council of Foreign Ministers of CIS Member States took place in
Moscow on April 21. The RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian
participated in the meeting. The CIS foreign ministers discussed a
number of problems related to the development of cooperation among the
CIS member states, particularly the process of implementation of the
decision on improvement and reforms of CIS bodies, which was taken by
the heads of the CIS states on August 26, 2005, and the issue of
setting up a high-level group on issues of increasing the efficiency
of the CIS. The CIS foreign ministers made decisions concerning the
Agreement on Council of Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS Member States
and the Agreement on Creation of a Inter-State Fund of Humanitarian
Cooperation of CIS Member States. The meeting participants approved
the program on main measures of cooperation of the CIS member states
in the sphere of culture until 2010, and the agenda of the meeting of
the government heads of the CIS member states to be held in Dushanbe
on May 25, 2006. According to the RA MFA Press and Information
Department, later on the same day Vartan Oskanian met with the Russian
Co-Chairman of the OCSE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov. Vartan Oskanian
returns to Yerevan late April 22.