YEREVAN. – The plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) held in Yerevan ended with a press conference on Wednesday. Vice President of the PABSEC Areg Ghukasyan informed that all the issues on the agenda were discussed. Mainly, Russia’s representative Yevgeni Kapishin was elected as deputy Secretary General, while two organizations, including the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (I.A.O.) and the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference were granted with a status of observers.

Ghukasyan claims that majority of issues on Assembly commission regulations were approved and the presidency passed from Armenia to Azerbaijan.

In addition, head of the Turkish delegation Ismail Safi thanked the Armenian side for having organized the Assembly properly and on high level.