Meeting with Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Director of the OSCE
On October 24, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, who has arrived in Palermo, Italy, met with the Austrian Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs, Michael Linhart, who heads the delegation of Austria which currently chairs the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); and Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). They reflected on OSCE agenda issues and Armenia’s active involvement in the activities of this organization. Also, the interlocutors discussed preparations for the OSCE conference that will be held in November in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, and which will be devoted to the prevention of and reaction to hate crimes against Christians and other religious groups. In addition, they conferred on the OSCE Ministerial Conference to be held in Vienna in December.
