ARKA News Agency, Armenia
July 24 2007

ARMENIA TO TAKE PART IN MEETING OF BSEC TRANSPORT MINISTERS’ COUNCIL
IN ISTANBUL

YEREVAN, July 4. /ARKA/. RA Deputy Minister of Transport Hrant
Beglaryan is to take part in a meeting of the Council of Ministers of
Transport of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC)
in Istanbul, on July 5, 2007.

Press Secretary of the RA Ministry of Transport Tamara Galechyan
reported that the meeting participants will focus their attention on
the signing of a memorandum on a program of constructing a ring road
round the Black Sea.

She also pointed out that no information on any meetings between
Hrant Beglaryan is available. `However, this dopes not that the
possibility of such meetings in ruled out,’ she said.

BSEC was founded in June 1992 in Istanbul and unites Azerbaijan,
Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Turkey
and Ukraine.

The organization aims at promoting multilateral regional cooperation
in trade, industry, transport, communication, science and technology,
agriculture, ecology and tourism. P.T. -0–