RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND EURO-ARCTIC COUNCIL SESSION








MOSCOW, MARCH 14, 2001 /FROM A RIA NOVOSTI CORRESPONDENT/ -- Igor Ivanov is on his way to Murmansk to attend the eighth session of the Barents Sea (European Arctic) Council at the foreign minister level, where Russia will pass its year-long chairmanship over to Sweden to keep it until the spring of 2002.


	Among the participants are Council members-- Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden, envoys from the European Communities Commission and nine observer-countries--Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Britain and the USA.