Baltic News Service
September 21, 2004
LITHUANIAN MEP ELECTED VICE-CHAIR OF EP DELEGATION WITH SOUTH
CAUCASUS
VILNIUS, Sep 21
Lithuanian Euro-parliamentarian Vytautas Landsbergis on Tuesday was
elected vice-chairman of the European Parliament delegation with the
South Caucasus countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Landsbergis was elected the vice-president during the first meeting
of the delegation, the press service of the EP European People’s
Party – European Democrats (EPP-ED) group reported.
“South Caucasus is a very important region to the European Union.
These are our neighbors over the Black Sea with old cultural European
links,” Landsbergis was cited in the press release as saying.
Landsbergis hopes that the EU will successfully cooperate with
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia for a better future in the entire
Europe and Caucasus.
The aim of the EP delegation is to develop political parliamentary
ties with MPs of the said countries.
EP member from France, representative of the Greens faction, Marie
Anne Isler Beguin became the president of the EP delegation with
South Caucasus countries.
Landsbergis is a member of the EP’s largest EPP-ED group, which
comprises 268 representatives of the Conservatives and the Christian
Democrats.