On April 1-2, 2015, Verkhovna Rada delegation chaired by Head of Permanent Verkhovna Rada Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation, Liudmyla Denysova, takes part in the 44th meeting of the BSEC Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Cultural, Educational and Social Affairs in Ordu (Turkey).
Verkhovna Rada deputies Serhii Kunitsyn and Oleksii Kyrychenko are members of the delegation.
The meeting will eye the approval of minutes of the Committee’s 43rd meeting, which took place in Yerevan (Armenia) on September 16, 2014.
The meeting participants will discuss the report and recommendations on the subject of “Role of sport in facilitation of development, employment and social unity in BSEC region.”
Two deputy heads of the BSEC Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Cultural, Educational and Social Affairs will also be elected at the meeting.
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) was founded on July 26, 1993. A total of 12 countries enter the organization: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Armenia, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. The People's Assembly of Egypt, the Knesset of Israel, the People's Assembly of the Slovak Republic, the Bundestag of Germany, France and the Parliament of the Republic of Belarus have an observer status within the BSEC Parliamentary Assembly.
Being an inter-parliamentary consultative body of the BSEC, the Assembly has been uniting the efforts of national parliaments to pursue the following aims, as stated in the preamble of the PABSEC Rules of Procedure: to secure the understanding and adoption by the peoples of the ideals and aims of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation; to provide a legal basis for economic, commercial, social, cultural and political cooperation among the member countries; to enact legislation needed for the implementation of decisions taken by the Heads of State or Government or by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs; to provide assistance to national parliaments so as to strengthen parliamentary democracy; to promote cooperation with other international and regional organization.
The Assembly set up three specialized committees: the Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs Committee; the Legal and Political Affairs Committee, and the Cultural, Educational and Social Affairs Committee.
Each Committee elects from among its members the Chairman and two Vice-Chairmen each from a different national delegation. Each Committee designates a Rapporteur on each subject. Subjects are chosen from a list drawn up and periodically updated according to the main themes and projects on the BSEC agenda. Final reports and draft recommendations are approved by absolute majority and submitted to the General Assembly for discussion and adoption.