ARMENIA SUPPORTS KAZAKHSTAN’S IDEA TO CONVENE OSCE SUMMIT IN LATE 2010
ArmInfo
2010-02-16 17:16:00
ArmInfo. Armenia supports Kazakhstan’s idea to convene OSCE Summit
in late 2010, Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian said
in a joint press conference with his Kazakh counterpart, the OSCE
Chairperson-in-Office Kanat Saudabayev in Yerevan on Tuesday. "We
also welcome the idea of the OSCE informal ministerial to be held in
July 2010 in Kazakhstan. The agenda of the summit will become more
exact after the informal ministerial meeting," Edward Nalbandian said.
For his part, Kanat Saudabayev said that 11 years have already passed
since the first such summit. "Over those years the world has faced
many new challenges and threats. Some of these threats have absolutely
changed the traditional perception of the concepts of "war," "enemy".
I mean the international terrorism, the so-called "protracted"
conflicts that are still unsettled. Over that period of time many new
such conflicts have originated. Afghanistan is still the source of
international terrorism and drug traffic. There are issues related to
the New European Security Architecture. These are the very issues and
problems that must be put on agenda on the OSCE leaders. Therefore,
President Nazarbayev defined such meeting among priorities of our
chairmanship," K. Saudabayev said. He said that many countries support
this idea and today Kazakhstan has actually launched coordination of
the content and determination of the date of the meeting. "I think
that this will become an important event for enhancing security and
cooperation in the entire space of the Organization from Vancouver
to Vladivostok on the one hand and will help strengthening the
Organization and increasing respect and trust in us on the other hand,"
the OSCE CIO said.