MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
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PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
Telephone: +37410. 544041 ext 202
Fax: +37410. 562543
Email: [email protected]
PRESS RELEASE
27-08-2007
Minister Oskanian participated in the Bled Strategic Forum
Minister Oskanian participated in the Bled Strategic Forum, held in Bled
Slovenia, at the invitation of Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel.
The Forum, held on August 26 and 27, featured speakers and panelists from
the European Union structures, as well as government officials from Europe,
the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Minister Oskanian addressed a Round Table Discussion entitled "Economic and
Political Trends in the South Caucasus and Central Asia: the Role of the EU
and the OSCE." He spoke about the generally positive economic trends and
the importance of continuing efforts to ensure that political trends, too,
continue to be positive. He stressed the need for focusing on deep and
lasting economic development. Minister Oskanian called on the international
community to see the region beyond its capacity to produce oil and gas, and
instead to view human capital as the major resource to utilize and enhance.
He stressed that the engagement of European structures has done a great deal
to support the democratization processes in the newly independent countries,
and that continuing engagement by these structures can serve to build the
institutions necessary to facilitate egalitarian and diversified economic
growth.
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