On 9 July 2021, Mr. Cemal Ozturk, PABSEC Vice-President, Head of the PABSEC Turkish Delegation, and Mr. Elshad Mirbashiroglu, member of the PABSEC Azerbaijani Delegation, visited the PABSEC International Secretariat and met with Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General.
On 9 July 2021, Mr. David Sergeenko, PABSEC Vice-President, Deputy Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Head of the PABSEC Georgian Delegation, visited the PABSEC International Secretariat and met with Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General.
Mr. Miltiadis Makrygiannis, PABSEC Deputy Secretary General, participated to the 2021 Annual Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, which took place online on 30 June – 6 July 2021.
On 5 July 2021, the Delegation of the Hungarian Parliament, composed of Mr. Akos Lajos Kohari, Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Hungarian Parliament, and Ms. Krisztina Kello, staff of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Hungarian Parliament, visited the PABSEC International Secretariat and met with Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General. The Delegation was accompanied by Ms. Veronika Lakatos, acting Consul General of Hungary in Istanbul, and Ms. Anna Bihari, diplomat of the Consulate General.
On 5 July 2021, the Delegation of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia composed of Ms. Lidija Tasevska, Head of the PABSEC Delegation, Ms. Cvetanka Ivanova, Secretary General of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia, Mr. Ilir Selmani, Head of the Cabinet of the President of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia and Ms Bleta Bilali, Secretary of the PABSEC Delegation, visited the PABSEC International Secretariat and met with Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General.
As a co-leader of the Action Coalition on Feminist Movements and Leadership, the IPU, in collaboration with the French National Assembly and Senate, organized on 2 July 2021 a side event, during the Generation Equality Forum Paris 2021, on the theme Parliaments Act for Equal. Mr. Miltiadis Makrygiannis, PABSEC Deputy Secretary General participated in this event, representing the PABSEC International Secretariat.
Mr. Daniel Dulca, PABSEC Deputy Secretary General, attended the High-Level Side Event “Mainstreaming Counter-Terrorism Responses across Parliamentary Functions, being organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Shura Council of the State of Qatar, on 30 June 2021.
Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General participated in the 43rd Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the BSEC Member States, which took place online, on 30 June 2021.
We congratulate all parliamentarians, national parliaments, and international parliamentary organizations on the International Day of Parliamentarism and wish successful activities for the benefit of the peoples of the wider Black Sea region and the whole world.
Mr. Daniel Dulca, PABSEC Deputy Secretary General, attended the online meeting of the BSEC Committee of Senior Officials, on 29 June 2021.
