Armenian Ministry of foreign affairs: Armenia supports conduction of osce summit at the end of the year

YEREVAN, February 16. /ARKA/. Armenia supports the proposal of Kazakhstan on the conduction of OSCE summit at the end of 2010, said Edward Nalbandyan, Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

“We also welcome the idea of conduction of informal meeting of OSCE Foreign Affairs Ministers in July in Kazakhstan. During informal discussions the agenda of the summit will be more accurate”, said Nalbandyan during the meeting with Kanat Saudabayev, Chairman of OSCE.

Kanat Saudabayev will visit Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan on February 14-17, 2010. On Monday Saudabayev arrived to Yerevan with two-day visit. He met with Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia and Hovik Abrahamyan, Speaker of Armenian National Assembly.

Saudabayev reminded that already 11 years passed from the last OSCE meeting in Istanbul. During this period many new challenges and threats appeared in the world.

“One of the threats is terrorism. Unfortunately a number of conflicts are not solved yet. New conflicts appeared. Afghanistan continues to remain supplier of drugs and terrorism. There are also issues related to the structure of European security”, said Saudabayev.

These issues should be discussed by OSCE. Norsultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan considered that representation of Kazakhstan should chair OSCE meeting.  --0--