OREANDA-NEWS. On 19 February 2009 was announced, that from February 17 to 19 a delegation of members of the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) comprising ambassadors and ambassadors at large of Ministries for Foreign Affairs of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland is visiting Petrozavodsk. They are taking part in the session of the Committee within the scope of Russia's presidency in the BEAC.

The session will start on February 18 at 2:00 p.m. in the conference hall of Karelia hotel. By the end of the session it is planned that Chairman of the Committee of Senior Officials of the BEAC, the ambassador at large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Anton Vasiliev will communicate with the journalists.