Valery Balan. Moldova will take at the beginning of the winter half-year Presidency of the parliamentary Assembly of the black sea economic cooperation (PABSEC), said Last news on Wednesday, the press service of the Parliament.

" The presidency will go to Moldova from Greece, according to the rotation principle 8 December, and the first meeting of the PABSEC under the leadership of Moldova will take place in Chisinau on 21-22 January 2015. In the 2nd part of the 2015 Presidency of BSEC go Romania ", - said the head of the Department.

in addition, in the first part of 2015 to Moldova will take over the Presidency in the Organization of the black sea economic cooperation (BSEC), and similarly in the Council of the BSEC business people.

the composition of the PABSEC, established on February 26, 1993, includes 12 countries: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Armenia, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. The parliaments of Egypt, Israel, Slovakia, Germany and France have the status of observers.

The organization of black sea economic cooperation (BSEC) was established in 1992 on the initiative of Turkey for cooperation countries attached to the black sea basin, in such areas as trade and economic development, transport, communications, tourism and ecology. One of the components of its activities is to fight crime and organized crime. The headquarters of the Organization is located in Istanbul.

The chairmanship in BSEC every six months, moving from one country to another, in alphabetical order.

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