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YEREVAN TO HOST CONFERENCE ON WIDER BLACK SEA REGION

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS: On January 14-15
Yerevan will host an international conference on
`Wider Black Sea Region. International and Regional
Security Prospects.’
It is being organized by the Armenian International
Policy Research Group (AIPRG) nonpartisan,
nonpolitical association together with the support of
NATO, OSCE, Yerevan State University Alumni
Association and the Dutch Embassy in Armenia.
Tigran Mkrtchian, AIPRG executive director, said
prime minister Serzh Sarkisian will address the
conference together with Robert Simmons, a special
NATO representative for the South Caucasus and Central
Asia and head of the OSCE Yerevan Office Sergey
Kapinos.
The conference will bring to Yerevan experts from
U.K. , USA, Turkey, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria,
Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
The goal of the conference will be to enhance a
debate on the concept of the Wider Black Sea involving
international and regional academic and political
circles; bring together differing evaluations and
views on the Wider Black Sea to pave a way for
discussing security perspectives in the light of a
possible political-military strategy; as well as
discuss the compatibility of Armenia’s foreign policy
and security strategy with the concept of the Wider
Black Sea region and the NATO strategy as stated in
Riga in 2006.