YEREVAN.- Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Ashot Hovakimyan paid a working visit to Vienna to meet with the representatives of the Austrian foreign office.

Hovakimanyan held meetings with Austrian Secretary General Johannes Kyrle, Chief Directorate for Security Policy at the Defense Ministry Johann Pucher. He was accompanied by Armenia’s Ambassador to Austria Arman Kirakosyan.

The sides discussed a wide range of issues, in particular the situation in the Middle East and South Caucasus, the issue on Ramil Safarov’s extradition to Azerbaijan, a program of bilateral cooperation between Armenia and Austria.

Deputy Minister Hovakimyan attended the meeting of the OSCE permanent counciland delivered a speech.