IRAN, IRAQ ON AGENDA OF G8 FOREIGN MINISTERS' SESSION
RIA Novosti, Russia
April 19 2006
MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - The June session of foreign
ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations will cover
topics including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa,
the U.S. under-secretary for political affairs said Wednesday.
Nicholas Burns, attending a meeting of G8 political directors in
Moscow, said a number of countries had also proposed discussing
the situation in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Moldova and
Georgia, as well as Nagorny Karabakh, a largely ethnic Armenian enclave
inside Azerbaijan, and Abkhazia, a self-proclaimed republic in Georgia.
The session of G8 foreign ministers is scheduled for June 28 prior
to the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July.
RIA Novosti, Russia
April 19 2006
MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti) - The June session of foreign
ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations will cover
topics including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa,
the U.S. under-secretary for political affairs said Wednesday.
Nicholas Burns, attending a meeting of G8 political directors in
Moscow, said a number of countries had also proposed discussing
the situation in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Moldova and
Georgia, as well as Nagorny Karabakh, a largely ethnic Armenian enclave
inside Azerbaijan, and Abkhazia, a self-proclaimed republic in Georgia.
The session of G8 foreign ministers is scheduled for June 28 prior
to the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July.