May 11, 2001 - 19:39 AMT
ARMENIAN FM SIGNED IN STRASBOURG 6 CONVENTIONS
YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian signed today in Strasbourg in the presence of Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Schwimmer 6 documents of Council of Europe Conventions.
Mediamax was informed today by the Council of Europe press service that FM Oskanian has signed the following texts: the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; the European Charter for Local Self-Government; the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters; the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime, and the European Convention on Extradition. --0--