ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER COMING TO ESTONIA

Baltic News Service
November 29, 2007 Thursday 3:07 PM EET

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian is to arrive in Estonia
on Sunday on a visit.

Oskanian is scheduled to meet with his opposite number, Urmas Paet,
and members of parliament. The ministers will hold a joint press
conference on Monday.

Paet invited his colleague to come to Estonia at a meeting on the
fringes of the European neighborhood policy conference in Brussels
at the beginning of September. The invitation was reciprocated.

Paet said in the meeting Estonia would like Armenia to lift the visa
requirement to Estonian citizens.

Dropping the visa requirement would definitely benefit economic
contacts between the two countries as well as tourism, Paet then said.

Oskanian visited Estonia in March 2000 and Estonia’s then Foreign
Minister Toomas Hendrik Ilves was on a return visit to the Caucasus
country in April 2001.

The Armenian head of state, Robert Kocharian, paid an official visit
to this Baltic state in June 2004 and the former president of Estonia,
Arnold Ruutel, visited Armenia in November of the same year.