Turkish Speaker hosts Black Sea Economic Cooperation parliamentary meeting

Anatolia news agency, Ankara
23 Nov 04

Belek, 23 November: Black Sea Economic Cooperation Parliamentary
Assembly (BSECPA) 24th Term Meeting started in Belek hamlet of southern
city of Antalya southwestern Turkey on Tuesday 23 November .

Making opening remarks of the meeting, Turkish Parliament Speaker
Bulent Arinc said: “BSECPA has been maintaining its activities since
1992-1993 with its 11 members. Earlier, Serbia-Montenegro applied to
become a member of BSECPA. Their membership will be approved during
the meeting.”

“BSECPA is an international organization having a population of nearly
350 million and gross national product of 300bn US dollars. Many
international organizations have been monitoring its activities,”
he added.

Representatives of member countries to BSECPA (Albania, Azerbaijan,
Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
and Greece) are attending the meeting.

On Thursday, BSECPA 22nd Term President Bulent Arinc will hand over
his mission to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimir Litvin.

Arinc is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with Parliament Speaker
Zoran Sami of Serbia-Montenegro on Wednesday and with Parliament
Speaker Volodimir Litvin of Ukraine on Thursday.