Agreement has been signed on establishment of Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries in the “Conference of Speakers of Parliaments of Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries”, the Chairman of Turkey- Azerbaijan parliamentary group of friendship Mustafa Kabakchi has phoned from Istanbul.
The aim of the PACE type Assembly is creation of the mechanism of inter-parliamentary relations and strengthening of interrelations, rapprochement of political views, exchange of experience, realization of joint projects. The agreement was signed by the Speaker of Turkish Parliament Koksan Toptan, Speaker of Azerbaijani Milli Majlis (Parliament) Ogtay Asadov, Speaker of Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Aytibay Tagaev, and the Vice-president of the Senate of Kazakhstan Mohammed Kopeev.
The members of parliamentary friendship group Turkey-Uzbekistan, Turkey-Turkmenistan as well as heads of diplomatic corpses of Turkic- speaking countries accredited in Turkey have also participated in the signing ceremony.
“Conference of Speakers of parliaments of Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries” started its work early Friday morning. President of Turkey Abdullah Gul addressing the event said he supported establishment of Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries and underlined the significance of it. President Gul also added that creation of Council of Aksakkals (Elders) is being planned.
Remind that, the first session at level of Vice-speakers of the Turkic-speaking countries was on February 21-22, 2008 in Antalya. The session passed a decision on creation of inter-parliamentary council of Turkic-speaking countries. Creation of the mechanism of inter-parliamentary relations and strengthening of interrelations, rapprochement of political views, an exchange of experience, and realization of joint projects was the purpose of establishment of the council to include a number of parliaments of Turkic-speaking countries.