The national parliamentary delegations of the CEI member states attended this event: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Moldova, the Republic of Montenegro, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, Ukraine. Representatives of other regional cooperation organizations, such as the South-East European Cooperation Process, the parliamentary dimension, and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, were also invited to attend.
All the speeches fitted into the general subject of the assembly, diminution of the impact of the global economic crisis in the CEI area: role of parliaments. It appeared that it was necessary to develop and consolidate the cooperation relations among the CEI member states in order to promote common interests.
The regional cooperation is a good instrument for promoting unanimously shared experiences and values, for creating an atmosphere of security and stability in the region.
The two working sections concentrated on measures meant to stimulate employment and to protect the vulnerable social groups and on the promotion of an adequate investment framework as a prerequisite for a viable economic recovery.
All the participants emphasized the benefits of this regional cooperation mechanism and stressed the need to intensify and consolidate it both at parliamentary level, by strengthening the role of national parliaments, and at governmental level.
The CEI Parliamentary Assembly ended by adopting the final document. It will be sent to the high-level meeting of prime ministers and the Meeting of CEI Member States’ foreign ministers to be held in Bucharest on November 12-13.
































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