Deputy Minister Arman Kirakossian led the Armenia delegation.

In their welcoming speeches, Traian Basescu, President of Romania, and Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, the Romanian Foreign Minister, stressed the importance of the BSCE for the stability and economic development in the region.

The Foreign Ministers discussed a number of actions and events held during the period of the Romanian Chairmanship, specifically the results of the meetings of ministers of transport, home affairs, environmental protection, and working groups on energy, science and technology, emergency, tax services and tourism. They also exchanged views on the prospects for possible interaction in the BSEC framework.

In his speech, Deputy Minister Kirakossian noted that the BSEC has already developed into a mature regional economic organization with a comprehensive institutional basis, rich experience in regional cooperation stockpiled within fourteen years of regional interaction and vast potential for multilateral cooperation. He also stressed the importance of the priority of the realistic interaction ideology for settling the conflicts that exist between some State Members. Armenian Deputy Minister urged all the Member States to revise their approaches toward regional infrastructures, specifically railway and motorways, noting that the European security, regional security, regional economic development could only benefit from the functioning of the Kars-Gyumri-Tbilisi railroad that is currently closed.

During the meeting, Leonidas Chryzanthopoulos of the Hellenic Republic, who was the first Greek Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, was elected Secretary General of the BSCE international secretariat.

On May 1, the Russian Federation takes over the Chairmanship of the Organization.