On 14 March 2019, Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, the PABSEC Secretary General, met with Mr. Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia. The Secretary General informed the Chairman of the Parliament about the current activities of the Parliamentary Assembly.
On 11 March 2019, Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, the PABSEC Secretary General, paid a working visit to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) in Ankara. He had meetings with Mr. Mustafa Sentop, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Mr. Ismail Kahraman, the former Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and former PABSEC President, Mr. Yunus Kılıç, Chairman of the GNAT Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Affairs and Mr. Cemal Ozturk, the PABSEC Vice-President and the Head of the PABSEC Turkish Delegation.
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the PABSEC International Secretariat would like to wholehearted congratulate all female colleagues in the BSEC family and wish them good health, happiness and success.
PABSEC Deputy Secretary General Mr. Miltiadis Makrygiannis attended the 10th International Black Sea Symposium on “The Black Sea – Silk Road corridor: Building bridges of cooperation”, which was organized by the International Center for Black Sea Studies in Athens, Greece, on 6-7 March 2019.
The First 2019 Meeting of the Working Group on the PABSEC Rules of Procedure was held in Istanbul on 6 March 2019. The representatives from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine participated in the Meeting.
On 28 February 2019, Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, the PABSEC Secretary General, visited Baku with a working visit and met with Mr. Ogtay Asadov, the PABSEC President, and the Chairman of the Milli Mejlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The PABSEC International Secretariat expresses its warmest congratulations on the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Bulgaria. On this special event, we would like to wish the people of Bulgaria, success in their endeavours, happiness, peace and prosperity.
On 23-26 February 2019, the PABSEC Delegation composed of Mr. Petar Kanev, PABSEC Vice-President and Head of the Bulgarian PABSEC Delegation, Mr. Otar Danelia, PABSEC Vice-President and Head of the Georgian PABSEC Delegation, Mr. Ramaz Nikolashvili, Vice-Chairman of the PABSEC Legal and Political Affairs Committee and member of the Georgian PABSEC Delegation, and Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General, participated in the monitoring of the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova.
The PABSEC Delegation composed of Mr. Igor Becic, the Head of the Serbian PABSEC delegation and Mr. Miltiadis Makrygiannis, the PABSEC Deputy Secretary General, participated in the 13th Plenary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) in Belgrade, Serbia, on 21-22 February 2019.
The PABSEC Delegation composed of Mr. Cemal Ozturk, PABSEC Vice-President in charge of Financial Matters and Head of the Turkish PABSEC Delegation and Mr. Fuat Kucukaydin, PABSEC Deputy Secretary General in charge of Administrative and Financial Matters participated in the 18th Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at the Hofburg Congress Centre in Vienna on 21-22 February 2019.
