Infrastructures of Black Sea region need unification and not isolation

PanARMENIAN.Net - The "Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSECO) was established to give the member-states possibility for integration and assistance, as well as to make use of the huge potential of the region," Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated at the BSECO Foreign Ministers' session. He said, 15 years ago establishment of BSECO was a necessity, which currently is felt sharper, especially when discussions are on the way around deepening cooperation between BSECO and EU states. "Transportation, energy, banking and educational all infrastructures of the region need to be unified, and not separation and isolation," Oskanian stressed.



In the result of the Foreign Ministers' session two documents were signed - the Belgrade Declaration and a memorandum on mutual understanding for coordinated development of the Black Sea ring highway.



The BSECO chairmanship was passed form Serbia to Turkey for 6 months. On June 25 a summit of BSECO member-states will be held in Istanbul dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the organization, the RA MFA Press Office reports.