The 56th Meeting of the PABSEC Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs Committee, 17 March 2021

The 56th Meeting of the PABSEC Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs Committee was held online on 17 March 2021 with the technical support of the PABSEC International Secretariat.

National delegations from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine took part in the Meeting. The Meeting was chaired by Mr. Petar Kanev, Vice-Chair of the Committee (Bulgaria).

The Committee approved the draft Report and the draft Recommendation 179/2021 “The Role of Parliaments in Preventing Human Trafficking - Economic Aspects” that will be submitted to the Fifty-Seventh Plenary Session of the General Assembly.

The Committee elected Mr. Petar Kanev, Head of the PABSEC Bulgarian Delegation, to the post of Chairman of the PABSEC Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs Committee for the term of two years.

The Committee took note of the information on the initiative to set up a business consultative group, presented by Mr. Alexey Kobilev, member of the PABSEC Russian Delegation.

The next 57th Meeting of the Committee will take place in Bulgaria on 15-16 September 2021. The main issue will be “Cooperation in the Field of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the BSEC Member States”. Mr. Alexey Kobilev, member of the PABSEC Russian Delegation, was appointed the Rapporteur for the Report.