Minister Oskanian is in Brussels to participate in the 7th session of the Armenia-EU Partnership and Cooperation Council. Together with the foreign ministers of Georgia and Azerbaijan, Minister Oskanian met with the EU leadership -- the Foreign Minister of Finland, which holds the EU Presidency, the Secretary of State of Germany which will hold the Presidency in the first half of 2007 as well as EU High Representative, Javier Solana, and External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

During the first day's dinner meeting, the participants discussed developments in the region, including Caucasus states' relations with neighbors, and also prospects for regional cooperation. Regional conflicts, especially Nagorno Karabakh, were the focus of much of the discussion, particularly in light of the upcoming meeting between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The dinner meeting was followed by a press conference, during which Minister Oskanian thanked the EU for its persistence in concluding the Action Plan process.

He also noted that "this year's meeting of the Partnership and Cooperation Council will be particularly memorable because it represents the beginning of a new chapter - for each of us individually, for our relations with the EU, and for the EU itself."

The meeting was followed by a Press Conference. On November 14, during the formal Council meeting the European Neighborhood Policy Action Plan will be adopted.