OSCE PA DELEGATION IN YEREVAN TO COMMEMORATE VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE PanARMENIAN.Net 09.03.2010 21:28 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ In the evening on March 10 the delegation headed by the Chairman of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Joao Soares will arrive in Armenia. Joao Soares is scheduled to meet with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan, chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh Ashot Ghulyan, the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. The delegation will also be received by the Catholicos of All Armenians Garekin II. The delegation will lay a wreath to the Armenian Genocide Memorial. On March 11 the delegation, headed by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Chairman will take part in the NATO Rose Roth seminar "Regional cooperation in the South Caucasus. Challenges, Opportunities, Perspectives". The OSCE Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, human rights, freedom of press and fair elections. Most of its 3,500-plus staff are engaged in field operations, with only around 10% in its headquarters. The OSCE is an ad hoc organization under the UN Charter and is concerned with early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. Its 56 participating states are in Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and North America and cover most of the northern hemisphere. It was created during the Cold War era as an East-West forum. Armenia became OSCE member on January 30, 1992. Since January 2010 the OSCE chairmanship was passed from Greece to Kazakhstan.