OSCE PA President to visit Armenia March 10-12

February 14, 2010 - 16:45 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net -
From March 10 to 12 this year, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE (OSCE PA) Joao Soares and OSCE PA Special Representative on Nagorno Karabakh Goran Lennmarker will arrive in Yerevan, Aram Safarian, secretary of the "Prosperous Armenia" parliamentary group told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

According to Safaryan, on March 11 during his visit, the President of the OSCE PA will take part in the meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which will be held at the National Assembly of Armenia.

During the visit Joao Soares will meet with RA President, the Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Armenian parliamentary delegation to OSCE PA, as well as representatives of public organizations.

OSCE

The world\'s biggest regional organization dealing with security issues, OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) unites 56 countries situated in North America, Europe and Central Asia.\r\n\r\nIts member state are: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France Great Britain, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Malta¸ Moldova, Monaco Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Roumania, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United States, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vatican.\r\n\r\nPartner countries include: Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Marocco, Mongolia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia.\r\n\r\nArmenia became an OSCE member state on January 30, 1992.