April 15, 2005 - 09:00 AMT
EU FOREIGN MINISTERS TO DISCUSS "FROZEN CONFLICTS" IN KARABAKH, ABKHAZIA AND CHECHNYA
The EU Foreign Ministers are scheduled to discuss the conflicts available in the Caucasus during the informal meeting opening in Luxembourg today. The Ministers will focus at the "frozen conflicts" in Nagorno Karabakh, Abkhazia and Chechnya. According to a report of the Europe Information Service, these conflicts "have never received our political attention meanwhile the European Union cannot but pay a great attention to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, since the road to the Central Asia lies through this very region." The EU FMs are expected to call the Caucasian states to the establishment of regional cooperation. Besides, they are going to raise the question of the regional conflicts before the interested states, these first of all being Russia, Turkey and Iran.