Parliament Speakers of South Caucasus Discussed Cooperation

Civil Georgia, UK
May 19 2004

Parliament speakers of the South Caucasus, Nino Burjanadze of Georgia,
Murtuz Aleskerov of Azerbaijan and Arthur Baghdasaryan of Armenia held
talks in Strasbourg on May 18 within the framework of the Council of
Europe Parliamentary Summit on May 17-19.

The speakers welcomed the readiness of the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe (PACE) to develop concrete cooperation programs
with different groups of society with a view to promoting contacts
in the region and assisting the implementation of democratic reforms.

The Assembly President and the Speakers will pursue contacts in order
to work on concrete proposals for cooperation to be discussed by the
parliamentary delegations of the three countries during the Assembly’s
October session.

In this framework, the Secretary General of the PACE Bruno Haller
will visit Baku, Tbilisi, and Yerevan at the beginning of July.