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First session of Euronest Parliamentary Assembly to be held in Strasbourg on September 14-15

10 August 2011 15:24 (UTC +04:00)

The parliamentarian said recommendations concerning the Eastern Partnership Summit that will be held in Warsaw on September 29-30 will be discussed and a relevant decision will be made during the session. Co-rapporteurs of the Committee on Political Affairs, Human Rights and Democracy David Darchiashvili and Traian Ungureanu prepared initial report â€œRecommendations for 2011 Eastern Partnership Summit: high expectations for purposeful activityâ€, the report was sent to Euronest PA committees for opinions and proposals.

Parliamentarian said the committees prepared initial opinion on the report. The Azerbaijani delegation prepared a number of proposals and submitted to the relevant committees.

Elkhan Suleymanov said final opinions for inclusion into the report â€œRecommendations for 2011 Eastern Partnership Summit: high expectations for purposeful activityâ€ will be confirmed at the meetings of the Euronest PAâ€™s Committee on Political Affairs, Human Rights and Democracy, Committee on Economic Integration, Legal Approximation and Convergence with EU Policies, Committee on Energy Security and Committee on Social Affairs, Education, Culture and Civil Society. Declaration on Belarus drafted by the co-rapporteurs of the working group on Belarus Dumitru Dyakov and Yatzek Sariush-Volski will be discussed and adopted during the session.

MP noted that the Assembly Bureau will discuss Azerbaijanâ€™s proposal to hold Euronest PA session in May, 2012 in the Eastern Partnership countries. According to procedure, Azerbaijan proposed to hold the Assemblyâ€™s next meeting in Baku. During the voting, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia and Euronest PAâ€™s co-president from the European Parliament Christian Vigen supported the idea to hold the Parliamentary Assemblyâ€™s plenary meeting in Azerbaijan. But Armenia and Bureau members from Poland Sariush-Volski and from Romania Traian Ungureanu were against this proposal. Moldova abstained. Due to absence of 2/3 majority of votes, it was decided to discuss the issue during the September session in Strasbourg. We are hopeful that we will achieve positive decision concerning this issue in the Bureauâ€™s meeting in Septemberâ€.