PLENARY SESSION OF BSEC PA STARTS IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 07 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The plenary session
of 27th convention of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea
Economic Cooperation (BSEC PA) started at the Parliament of Armenia
on June 7. As Tigran Torosian, the newly elected Chairman presiding
at the session informed, parliamentary delegations from all the BSEC
member-states, excluding recently separated Serbia and Chernogoria,
participate in work of the plenary session in Yerevan.

Parliamentarians from 12 countries, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine,
Serbia and Chernogoria, were involved in the BSEC PA up to the recent
times. As a result of separation of Serbia amd Chernogoria the number
of BSEC PA member-countries reached 13. Armenia, which has presided
at the organization during the last half year, will pass at the end
of the sitting its commission to the country next by alphabit order,
Azerbaijan, representatives of the Parliament of which also participate
in the Yerevan sitting.

As Tigran Torosian mentioned in his speech, the BSEC PA widens
its activity year by year, becoming a most important factor for the
political and economic stability in the region. “I’m sure that economic
cooperation among countries of the region, openness and accesability
of transport communications may create an atmosphere of trust, such
necessary for solution of the most important problems of the region,”
Torosian mentioned.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress