RA FOREIGN MINISTER TO LEAVE FOR STRASBOURG, THEN FOR U.S. AND CANADA
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 17 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 17, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. RA Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian left for Strasbourg on May 18 to participate in the
116th session of the Foreign Ministers’ Committee of the Council
of Europe. The RA Foreign Minister together with Foreign Ministers
participating in the session will have a non-official meeting on the
same day with CE Secretary General Terry Davis.
The meeting in which Marti Ahtisaari, the former President of
Finland, the UN Secretary’s General Special Envoy to Kosovo status
talks participated, will be dedicated to the future status of
Kosovo. Minister Oskanian’s meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
Elmar Mamediarov and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen is envisaged in
Strasbourg. Minister Oskanian will make a speech on May 19. As Noyan
Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information
Department, on the same day Vartan Oskanian will leave for the U.S.
and Canada where he will meet with representatives of the Armenian
community of Los Angeles, Boston and Ottawa. A wide circle of issues
connected with organization of the Armenia-Diaspora third conference
to take place in Yerevan on September 18-20 will be discussed at the
meetings. RA Foreign Minister Oskanian will return Armenia on May 24.