OSKANIAN TO VISIT USA, RUSSIA AND SYRIA

YEREVAN, MARCH 23, ARMENPRESS: Armenian foreign ministry said minister Vartan Oskanian will pay a working visit to the USA on March 26-31.
The ministry said on March 27 Oskanian and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend the signing OF the $235 million Millennium Challenge Compact, recently awarded by the U.S. government to Armenia. On the same day Oskanian is expected to meet with Steven Mann, the US cochairman in the OSCE Minsk group. On March 27, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will address Armenian-American activists gathering in Washington.
On March 29 he will leave Washington for New York where on March 30 he will meet with UNDP coordinator Kemal Dervis and the UN General Assembly chairman Jan Eliason. Oskanian is also scheduled to meet with Kofee Anan. On April 6-7 Oskanian will be in Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and Russian security council secretary Igor Ivanov.
On April 7-9 Oskanian will be in Syria where he will meet with Syrian president Bashar Asad and foreign minister Valid Mualim. On April 9 Oskanian will attend a ceremony in Syrian Aleppo dedicated to the centenary of the Armenian General Benevolent Union and the 75-th anniversary of foundation of the Armenian Youth Union.