ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Aug 24 2007
Armenian Fm to visit Slovenia, Belgium
YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan
is to leave for Slovenia on August 26 to take part in the annual
forum `EU 2020: expansion and integration’ in the city of Bled.
The press and information department, RA Foreign Office, reports that
among the prospective participants in the forum are Georgian
President Mikhail Sahakashvili, the Premiers of Croatia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Iwo Sanader, Gedeminas Kirkilas and Nikola Grusevski, UN
Special Envoy for the Kosovo problem Marti Akhtisaari, Foreign
Ministers of a number of countries, political figures, EU officials,
representatives of analytical centers and NGOs.
The forum participants are to discuss the challenges facing Europe
and issue of European integration.
The Armenian FM is expected to make a speech during the discussions
`Economic and political directions of the South Caucasus and Central
Asia. The Role of EU and OSCE.’
Among the participants in the discussion will be Georgian
Vice-Premier, State Minister for European and Euroatlantic
integration Georgy Baramidze, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister
Vagif Sadykov, EU Special Representative in the South Caucasus Peter
Semneby.
The Armenian Foreign Minister is also to hold bilateral meeting in
Bled.
On September 3, Minister Oskanyan is to leave for Brussels, at the
invitation of the EU Commissioner for Foreign Relations and European
Neighborhood policy Benita Ferero-Valdner, take part in a meeting of
Foreign Ministers of the countries participating in the EU New
Neighborhood Policy.
Attending at the meeting whose motto is `Cooperating in consolidating
the European neighborhood policy’ will be the Foreign Ministers of
the 16 countries participating in the New Neighborhood Policy. The
participants will discuss issues of cooperation in trade
liberalization, energy security, as well as the challenges resultant
from climatic changes.
In Brussels, the Armenian Foreign Minister is also to meet with NATO
Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Schefer. P.T. -0–