Emergency Situations Ministers of BSEC member states to meet in Baku on September 18August 12, 2009 - 15:29 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Emergency Situations Ministers of BSEC (Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation) member states will meet in Baku on September 18.Prior to the ministers' meeting, experts will meet in Baku on September 17. BSEC is an intergovernmental organization, which brings together 12 states from the Black Sea region and the Balkans (Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine). Organization was founded on May 1, 1999, based on the Agreement on Black Sea Economic Cooperation. BSEC chairing state is Azerbaijan, which will hold chairmanship till October 31, Azerbaijani APA news agency reports. Azerbaijani authorities report that they have already resettled 3,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Stepanakert. On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. Partner news |