The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Vitaliy Kaliuzhnyi met with GUAM Secretary General Valeri Chechelashvili

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
31 January 2013, 17:41

 

The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Vitaliy Kaliuzhnyi met with GUAM Secretary General Valeri Chechelashvili.

 

The Committee Chairman noted that parliamentary dimension is an extremely important element of developing cooperation between GUAM member-states.

 

V.Kaliuzhnyi emphasized that due to parliamentary elections, delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine did not participate in the work of the latter meeting of the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly in December 2012. The Committee Chairman assured GUAM Secretary General that Ukrainian delegation in GUAM PA will be established and start its work in the nearest future. 

 

Having informed of his participation in the joint meeting of the GUAM PA, Baltic Assembly, PA Benelux and the Visegrad Four, V.Chechelashvili stressed the increasing role of organization in Europe.

 

The Parties have also discussed perspective directions of GUAM activities and further development of cooperation between member-states of the organization.