Parliament Speakers of South Caucasus Discussed Cooperation

Parliament speakers of the South Caucasus, Nino Burjanadze of Georgia, Murtuz Aleskerov of Azerbaijan and Arthur Baghdasaryan of Armenia held talks in Strasbourg on May 18 within the framework of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Summit on May 17-19.

The speakers welcomed the readiness of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to develop concrete cooperation programs with different groups of society with a view to promoting contacts in the region and assisting the implementation of democratic reforms.

The Assembly President and the Speakers will pursue contacts in order to work on concrete proposals for cooperation to be discussed by the parliamentary delegations of the three countries during the Assembly’s October session.

In this framework, the Secretary General of the PACE Bruno Haller will visit Baku, Tbilisi, and Yerevan at the beginning of July.