BLACK SEA PEACEBUILDING PLATFORM DISCUSSED IN YEREVAN

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
20.11.2009 20:15 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The National Citizens’ Initiative (NCI) and
the Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation
(ACGRC) today held, at the NCI headquarters, a working discussion
devoted to the start of the Armenia Initiative of the Black Sea
Peacebuilding Platform (BSPP). The event brought together Armenian
NGOs representatives, analysts and experts.

At the beginning of the roundtable, its organizers briefly presented
the history behind the founding of the BSPP. They noted that the
initiative toward forming this Platform had started in October 28-31,
when civil society conflict resolution experts from Yerevan, Baku,
Tbilisi, ChiÅ~_inÄ~Cu, Bucharest, Kyiv, Stepanakert, and Tiraspol
had met at the Romanian capital Bucharest. It was already decided
during this meeting that the Platform will permanently function
in all the countries of the Black Sea Region and will attempt to
contribute, by way of continuous discourse and cooperation, to the
pacific resolution of all existing regional conflicts, and to share
expertise in peacebuilding.

During the discussion held at NCI headquarters, the attendees
underscored the need to unite and coordinate the efforts by all of the
region’s civil societies that seek the building and consolidation of
peace in the Black Sea Region. To this end, the discussants expressed
their readiness to become a part of the BSPP’s Armenia Initiative.

In closing, the roundtable participants decided to continue their
working discussions and to hold other events toward strengthening
the BSPP’s Armenia Initiative.