ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO MAKE SPEECH IN BRUSSELS AT EVENT ON ISSUE
OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

YEREVAN, APRIL 14, NOYAN TAPAN. A working visit of the RA Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian to Austria is scheduled for April 16, during
which he will meet with Chiarwoman of Austria’s National Council
(speaker of the Austrian parliament’s upper chamber) Barbara Prammer
and the Foreign Minister Ursula Plasnik. During the visit, Vartan
Oskanian will give a lecture at Vienna Diplomatic Academy and make a
speech at the special session of the OSCE Permanent Council.

On April 19 V. Oskanian will particupate in the meeting of foreign
ministers of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization and
deliver a speech.

A visit of V. Oskanian to Brussels is scheduled for April 25. The
speech of the Armenian foreign minister at an event dedicated to the
issue of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide (the event
is organized by the Royal Conservatory of Brussels) is scheduled for
the same day. Heads of diplomatic missions accredited in Brussels,
representatives of various Armenian communities and organizations in
Europe will participate in the event.

On April 26 V. Oskanian will have meetings with high-ranking officials
of European structures in Brussels.

On April 27-29 the Armenian foreign minister will take part in the
Brussels Forum 2007, at which he will make the report "Black Sea
Region. Development Prospects". Prime ministers of Belgium and
Georgia, foreign ministers of Germany and Canada, other high-ranking
officials will participate in this forum.