Moldovan speaker attends 44th meeting of PABSEC

Chisinau, 8 December /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Igor Corman participates in the 44th meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), held in Athens, Greece, on 8 – 9  December. At the session, the Moldovan parliament will take over, according to the rotation principle, the PABSEC chairmanship for the first half of 2015, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.

Igor Corman will give a speech, in which he will refer to the priorities of the PABSEC chairmanship held by Moldova’s parliament. Corman will also meet his Greek counterpart Evangelos–Vasileios Meimarakis.

Under the agenda, the plenary meeting will be preceded by meetings of the Assembly’s Bureau and Committee on political and legal affairs. Corman will be accompanied by the head of the Moldovan parliamentary delegation to PABSEC, MP Iurie Bolboceanu and lawmakers Nae-Simion Pleșca and Gheorghe Focsa. 

Moldova’s parliament will take over the PABSEC chairmanship from the Greek parliament and will give it over to the Romanian one for the second half of 2015. At the same time, Moldova will also hold the chairmanship of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), as well as of the BSEC Business People Council in the first half of 2015. 

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation was created following major political changes, which took place in late 1980’s, when the countries from the Black Sea region reappeared on the global stage. On 26 February 2013, PABSEC marked its 20th anniversary. Moldova is one of the PABSEC member founders, which signed the Declaration on PABSEC's foundation. The assembly brings together 12 member states from the Black Sea region: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Serbia.