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    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    Aug 24 2007


    Armenian Fm to visit Slovenia, Belgium


    YEREVAN, August 24. /ARKA/. Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan
    is to leave for Slovenia on August 26 to take part in the annual
    forum `EU 2020: expansion and integration' in the city of Bled.

    The press and information department, RA Foreign Office, reports that
    among the prospective participants in the forum are Georgian
    President Mikhail Sahakashvili, the Premiers of Croatia, Lithuania,
    Macedonia, Iwo Sanader, Gedeminas Kirkilas and Nikola Grusevski, UN
    Special Envoy for the Kosovo problem Marti Akhtisaari, Foreign
    Ministers of a number of countries, political figures, EU officials,
    representatives of analytical centers and NGOs.

    The forum participants are to discuss the challenges facing Europe
    and issue of European integration.
    The Armenian FM is expected to make a speech during the discussions
    `Economic and political directions of the South Caucasus and Central
    Asia. The Role of EU and OSCE.'

    Among the participants in the discussion will be Georgian
    Vice-Premier, State Minister for European and Euroatlantic
    integration Georgy Baramidze, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister
    Vagif Sadykov, EU Special Representative in the South Caucasus Peter
    Semneby.

    The Armenian Foreign Minister is also to hold bilateral meeting in
    Bled.

    On September 3, Minister Oskanyan is to leave for Brussels, at the
    invitation of the EU Commissioner for Foreign Relations and European
    Neighborhood policy Benita Ferero-Valdner, take part in a meeting of
    Foreign Ministers of the countries participating in the EU New
    Neighborhood Policy.

    Attending at the meeting whose motto is `Cooperating in consolidating
    the European neighborhood policy' will be the Foreign Ministers of
    the 16 countries participating in the New Neighborhood Policy. The
    participants will discuss issues of cooperation in trade
    liberalization, energy security, as well as the challenges resultant
    from climatic changes.

    In Brussels, the Armenian Foreign Minister is also to meet with NATO
    Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Schefer. P.T. -0--
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