The PABSEC Delegation composed of Mr. Symeon Kedikoglu, PABSEC Vice-President and Head of the PABSEC Hellenic Delegation, and Mr. Petar Kanev, Head of the PABSEC Bulgarian Delegation, participated in the 38th Session of the Baltic Assembly in Riga on 28-29 November 2019.
H.E. Mr. Cha Kon Il, Ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to Bulgaria, paid a visit to the PABSEC International Secretariat in Istanbul on 28 November 2019 and met with Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General. Mr. Kim Chol Min, First Secretary in the Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Sofia also participated in the meeting. Mrs. Pavlina Lozanova, Secretary of the PABSEC Legal and Political Affairs Committee also participated in the Meeting.
The PABSEC International Secretariat expresses its warmest congratulations on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Albania.
On this special day, we would like to wish the people of the Republic of Albania, success in their endeavors, happiness, peace, and prosperity.
The 50th Plenary Session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS was held in St. Petersburg on 22 November 2019, at the headquarters of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States - the Tavricheskiy Palace. Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, the PABSEC Secretary General represented the PABSEC in this Meeting. The gathering was attended by the heads of the IPA CIS parliamentary delegations, parliamentarians of the CIS countries, representatives of the CIS Executive Committee, partner international organizations, diplomatic corps, heads of executive and legislative authorities of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and other honourable guests.
The 54th Plenary Session of the PABSEC General Assembly continued its work on 21 November 2019.
The 54th Plenary Session of the PABSEC General Assembly began its work on 20 November 2019. Parliamentary delegations of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine take part in it. Also the representative of the Hellenic BSEC Chairmanship-in-Office, the Secretary General of the BSEC Permanent International Secretariat, the Secretary General of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB), the Director General of the International Center for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) and the Secretary General of the Union of Road Transport Associations of the BSEC Member States (BSEC- URTA), PABSEC Special Representatives participate in the Session.
The Meetings of the Working Group on the PABSEC Rules of Procedure, the Bureau of the Assembly and the Standing Committee were held on the first day of the 54th PABSEC General Assembly on 19 November 2019.
The 54th Plenary Session of the PABSEC General Assembly will be held in Sofia on 20-21 November 2019.
On 18 November 2019 Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General, while in Sofia on the occasion of the preparation for the 54th PABSEC General Assembly, met with Mrs. Tsveta Karayancheva, PABSEC President, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. Mr. Petar Kanev, Head of the PABSEC Bulgarian Delegation also participated in the meeting.
As a follow-up to the Ministerial Meeting on BSEC – EU Cooperation (Brussels, 18 June 2019), the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS), within the framework of the Hellenic BSEC Chairmanship-in-Office, organized the Regional Stakeholders Conference on ‘Black Sea Synergy: the way forward’, in Athens, Greece, on Thursday 7 November 2019. The PABSEC International Secretariat was represented by the PABSEC Deputy Secretary General Mr. Miltiadis Makrygiannis.
Congratulations to our host country, the Republic of Turkey, on the occasion of the Republic Day, celebrated on 29 October. We wish the people of the Republic of Turkey success in their endeavours, happiness, and prosperity.
