ARMENIAN AND FINNISH FOREIGN MINISTERS TO SIGN AGREEMENT ON ENCOURAGING INVESTMENTS OCTOBER 5

October 5 within the framework of a regional visit to the South Caucasus Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja will leave Baku for Yerevan. As the Press Service of the Armenian foreign department told Arminfo news agency, in the course of a one-day working visit, meetings with President Robert Kocharian, Parliament Speaker Artur Baghdasarian, Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian are scheduled. October 5 an agreement on encouragement and protection of mutual investments between the Governments of Armenia and Finland will be signed. Besides, with the Armenian leaders the Finnish Minister will discuss bilateral cooperation issues, the situation in the South Caucasus and the EU policy in the region. Within the framework of the visit E. Tuomioja will visit the monument to victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey and will lay a wreath to the memorial.