ArmenPress, Armenia



Representatives of Azerbaijan and Turkey to participate in BSEC
ministerial meeting in Yerevan



YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS. Representatives of Azerbaijan and Turkey
will participate in the meetingof the Council ofMinistersofForeign
Affairs of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
ARMENPRESS reports the delegation of all the member states will arrive
in Armenia on June 27. Armenia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria,
Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine
are the BSEC members.

Agriculture and agro-industry, banking and finance, combating
organized crime, culture, customs matters, education, emergency
assistance, energy, environmental protection, exchange of statistical
data and economic information, healthcare and pharmaceutics,
information and communication technologies, institutional renewal and
good governance, science and technology, SMEs, tourism, trade and
economic development and transport are among the main fields of
cooperation within the framework of the Organization. BSEC covers an
area of nearly 20 million square kilometers. It represents a region of
337 million people, reaching an intra-BSEC trade volume of USD 167.3
billion annually.

The principal regular decision making organ of the Organization of the
Black Sea Economic Cooperation is the Council of the Ministers of
Foreign Affairs.The Council meets twice a year, but in case of
necessity special or non-formal meetings are convened.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan