MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA FOR THE CONFERENCE OF THE ADVICE
OF THE EUROARCTIC REGION LEFT








MOSCOW, 14 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" Korr. /.  The minister of foreign
affairs of Russia Igor Iwanow left from Moscow for Murmansk, where the
8.  Conference of the advice Barents (Euroarktischen)region on the
level of the ministers of foreign affairs will take place.  On this
conference Russia its Praesidieren in the advice in the course of the
yearly will complete, and the line of this organ will take over Sweden
up to the spring 2002.

In this conference the member countries of the advice - Denmark,
Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden, representative of the commission
for European communities as well as of nine observer countries - will
take part Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands,
Poland, Great Britain and the USA -.