ARMENIA’S PREMIER TO TAKE PART IN CIS PRIME MINISTERS’ MEETING IN MINSK

ARKA
May 21, 2008

YEREVAN, May 21. /ARKA/. Armenian delegation led by RA Prime Minister
Tigran Sargsian leaves for Minsk on May 22 to participate in the May
23 regular meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers.

The delegation consists of Head of the RA Government Staff David
Sargsyan, RA deputy Foreign Minister Gegham Gharibjanyan, Permanent
Representative of Armenia in the CIS Oleg Yesayan, Armenia’s
Representative to the CIS Economic Council Artak Vardanyan and other
officials.

The participants to the meeting will discuss a number of cooperation
issues.

They will also touch upon the project of the CIS Economic Strategy
2020, as well as transport policy issues.

The CIS Council of Ministers plans to discuss the performance of the
CIS food safety mission.

Drafts of the CIS conventions on frontier cooperation and the
legal status of migrant workers and their families, as well as on
hydrometeorology specialists training are on the agenda.

The Prime Ministers will also discuss the concept of maintainability of
bridges in the CIS in 2008-2015, as well as financial and humanitarian
cooperation issues.

The draft project on the organization of the 65th anniversary of
Victory will also be on the agenda of the meeting. The Ministers
will also discuss the draft decision of the unified jubilee medal
on the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
(1941-1945).