ON TUESDAY KOCHARYAN TO LEAVE FOR SOCHI TO TAKE PART IN EURASEC SUMMIT

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 15, 2006

YEREVAN, August 15. /ARKA/. On Tuesday Armenian President Robert
Kocharyan will leave for Sochi to take part in Eurasian Economic
Community (EurAsEC) summit.

Armenian will be presented at the summit as an observer, press service
of the president reports.

On August 15-17, heads of EurAsEC-member countries will meet at an
informal meeting in Sochi.

The agenda of the summit includes the following issues: formation of
customs union within the scope of the organization, establishment of
a system of international centers for rendering services of nuclear
cycle on basis of nondiscrimination access, water-energy regulation
in the Central Asia and establishment of the Eurasian water-economy
consortium, deepening of cooperation between the Community and
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), as well as issues
related to Uzbekistan’s joining the CSTO.

Member countries of the EurAsEC are Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine
obtain the status of observers under the EurAsEC.

The treaty on establishment of the EurAsEC was signed in the capital of
Kazakhstan Astan on October 10, 2000, by the presidents of Byelorussia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Later Uzbekistan joined
the Community.