Foreign Affairs Minister Vartan Oskanian headed the Armenian delegation to the session.

The session's agenda focused mainly on the preparation and adoption of several documents to be presented during the CIS Summit to be held in Kazan, Tatarstan on August 26.

The key themes of the agenda were issues relating to enhancing the efficiency and improvement of the activities of Commonwealth bodies, draft statements of heads of CIS states on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the UN and the Agreement for Humanitarian Cooperation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The Foreign Affairs Ministers considered a decision to declare 2006, the Year of the Commonwealth of Independent States and an appeal by the CIS Heads of States to the people of the member states and international community on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Electric Power Station.

Within the context of UN reforms, the Council of Foreign Ministers stressed the importance of having inclusive reforms and their endorsement by the majority of UN member states.

In the same evening, an unofficial meeting of the Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group and Foreign Affairs Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan took place.

A regular meeting between the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the two countries on Nagorno-Karabagh conflict resolution is scheduled for August 24 in Moscow.