Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will travel to Sochi to attend the 34th Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) scheduled for July 1.

Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the BSEC Chairman-in-Office, is expected to chair the meeting.

At the conclusion of the meeting, a ceremony will take place whereby the Russian Federation will hand over the Chairmanship-in-Office of BSEC to the Republic of Serbia. Serbia will assume the Chairmanship for a period of six months until December 31, 2016.