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ITAR-TASS, Russia
June 21, 2013 Friday 08:18 PM GMT+4
Ukraine to hand over BSEC chairmanship to Armenia
KIEV June 21
- The Chairmanship-in-Office in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
(BSEC) organisation will be handed over from Ukraine to Armenia. This
was declared upon the results of the meeting of the BSEC Foreign
Ministries Council that completed in Odessa on Friday.
Taking part in the meeting were representatives of Azerbaijan,
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Serbia,
Turkey and Ukraine. The participants in the forum considered in detail
prospects for the development of cooperation in the Black Sea region,
including that in the spheres of economy, transport and the
environmental protection.
"The participants in the meeting noted that in the period of Ukraine
chairmanship-in-office in the organisation was given an impetus for
the development of the economic interaction," Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister, who headed the Russian delegation in the forum, Vasily
Nebenzya told Itar-Tass. "Over the past six months, the economic and
transport ministers of the BSEC countries met to discuss large
infrastructure projects in the region," he said.
In his words, the participants in the meeting considered some elements
of the program, which Armenia plans to fulfil in the period of its
BSEC chairman-in-office. In particular, a special attention will be
paid to the development of information technologies, transport
problems in the region and security aspects in the BSEC zone.
June 21, 2013 Friday 08:18 PM GMT+4
Ukraine to hand over BSEC chairmanship to Armenia
KIEV June 21
- The Chairmanship-in-Office in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
(BSEC) organisation will be handed over from Ukraine to Armenia. This
was declared upon the results of the meeting of the BSEC Foreign
Ministries Council that completed in Odessa on Friday.
Taking part in the meeting were representatives of Azerbaijan,
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Serbia,
Turkey and Ukraine. The participants in the forum considered in detail
prospects for the development of cooperation in the Black Sea region,
including that in the spheres of economy, transport and the
environmental protection.
"The participants in the meeting noted that in the period of Ukraine
chairmanship-in-office in the organisation was given an impetus for
the development of the economic interaction," Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister, who headed the Russian delegation in the forum, Vasily
Nebenzya told Itar-Tass. "Over the past six months, the economic and
transport ministers of the BSEC countries met to discuss large
infrastructure projects in the region," he said.
In his words, the participants in the meeting considered some elements
of the program, which Armenia plans to fulfil in the period of its
BSEC chairman-in-office. In particular, a special attention will be
paid to the development of information technologies, transport
problems in the region and security aspects in the BSEC zone.