Armenian foreign minister meets UN, NATO officials at Munich conference

Regnum, Moscow
12 Feb 05

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has held a number of
bilateral meetings within the framework of the international security
conference in Munich.

The Armenian foreign minister has met UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan,
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Lithuanian Foreign
Minister Antanas Valionis, the German chancellor for foreign policy and
security issues, Bernd Mutzelburg, and the director of the political
department of the German Foreign Ministry, Michael Schaefer, the
Armenian Foreign Ministry's press service has told Regnum news agency.

As was reported earlier, the foreign and defence ministers of
40 countries are taking part in the 41st security conference in
Munich. The main subjects of discussion are the nuclear programmes
of Iran and North Korea and the expansion of NATO's role in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Russia is represented by Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov.