Armenia participates in  CIS MFA Advisory Council of Consuls  in  Minsk

ArmInfo. The 33rd meeting of the Advisory Council of the Heads of Consular Services of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the CIS Member States was held in Minsk under the chairmanship of Uzbekistan, with the Armenian  delegation participating via videoconference.

According to the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the  meeting was also attended by delegations from the Ministries of  Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,  Uzbekistan, the Russian Federation, and Turkmenistan, as well as a  representative of the CIS Executive Committee.

The Armenian side was represented by Artur Petrosyan, Head of the  Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

The meeting agenda included matters concerning the implementation of  the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of April 24, 1963, the  Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family  and Criminal Matters of 2002. Participants also discussed bilateral  and multilateral cooperation, the protection of the rights and  legitimate interests of citizens, as well as the mutual recognition  of electronic documents under the Chisinau Convention of October 7,  2018.