RA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO VISIT SLOVENIA ON AUGUST 26-27
Noyan Tapan
Aug 24, 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Vardan Oskanian, the RA Minister of
Foreign Affairs, will be in Slovenia on an official visit, where he
will take part in the forum titled "EU 2020: expansion and integration"
to be held in the city of Bled.
It is envisaged that Mikhail Saakashvili, the President of Georgia,
Ivo Sanader, the Prime Minister of Croatia, Gediminas Kirkilas, the
Prime Minister of Lithuania, Nikola Gruevski, the Prime Minister
of the Republic of Macedonia, Marti Ahtisaari, the Special Envoy
of the United Naitons’ Secretary General for the settlement of
the future status of Kosovo, prime ministers, political figures,
EU officials, and representatives of analytical centres and
non-governmental organizations of a number of countries, who will
conduct discussions on the challenges set before Europe, will take
part in this conference. Discussions of issues concerning the European
integration are also scheduled by the agenda.
Vardan Oskanian is envisaged to make a speech during the discussion
titled "Economical and political directions of South Caucasus
and Central Asia: the role of the European Union and OSCE." Giorgi
Baramidze, the Vice Prime Minister of Georgia and the Georgian State
Minister of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Vagif Sadikov, the
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, and Peter Semnebi,
the EU Special Envoy for South Caucasus, will also take part in the
above-mentioned discussion.
According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the Press
and Information Department of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Vardan Oskanian will also have bilateral meetings in Bled.
On the invitation of Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Commissioner
for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy, Vardan
Oskanian will take part in the meeting of the prime ministers of the
member countries of the European New Neighborhood Policy, on September
3-4, which will proceed under the title "To strengthen the European
Neighborhood Policy by working together."
The aim of the discussions to be conducted during the meeting,
at which the prime ministers of the 16 countries taking part in
the European Neighborhood Policy will be present, is to develop the
cooperation within the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy
in the directions of trade liberalization, energetic security, and
challenges of climate changes.
During his visit to Brussels the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs will
meet with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the Secretary General of NATO.