Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend K.Ramazanova / The Foreign Ministers of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) member-countries will hold an informal meeting in New York on 2 October, the organization announced on 26 September.
The seventeenth meeting of the BSEC Foreign Ministers Council will be held in Ankara, Turkey, on 25 October. The meeting's agenda is still unknown.
BSEC is an intergovernmental organization, which unites twelve countries of the South Balkans and Black Sea region. BSEC was established on 1 May 1999 on the basis of the Black Sea economic cooperation agreement dated 25 June 1992. The office of the organization is in Istanbul.
BSEC unites Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, and the Ukraine. Turkey has been chairing the organization since 1 May 2007. The Ukraine will undertake the chairmanship starting from 1 November 2007.