On October 24, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, who arrived in Palermo on a working visit, met with Michael Linhart, head of the Austrian delegation, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria, which chairs the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

At the meeting the sides touched upon the issues of the OSCE agenda, the active involvement of Armenia in the three dimensions of the organisation's activities.

The interlocutors discussed issues related to the preparations for the OSCE conference entitled "Countering and preventing hate crimes against Christians and other religious groups" to be held in Yerevan in November.

The agenda of the meeting included also issues related to the OSCE Ministerial Council to be held in Vienna in December.