ISSUE OF PARTICIPATION OF SWITZERLAND IN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS OF ARMENIA DISCUSSED IN BERN

Noyan Tapan
Mar 14 2007

BERN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The state of bilateral relations and
participation of Switzerland in the development programs of Armenia,
particularly, in the program of liquidation of poverty in rural
settlements were discussed at the March 13 meeting taken place in Bern
between Micheline Calmy-Rey, the President of the Swiss Confederation,
head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and RA Minister of
Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanian.

V. Oskanian presented in details the process of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict settlement, in the light of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministers’ meeting scheduled for March 14. The Armenian-Turkish
relations and possible developments were also discussed.

V. Oskanian met in the second half of the day in Geneva with
representatives of the Armenian community of Switzerland and discussed
possibilities of practical participation of the community in the
program of development of rural settlements of Armenia.

The RA Foreign Minister made a speech on the same day in the session
of the Human Rights Council proceeding in the Geneva UN Office.