Preparations for the 2nd Meeting of the Secretaries General of Parliaments of States surrounding the Mediterranean have been recently discussed between the Secretary General of the French Senate, H.E. Alain Delcamp and Dr. Sergio Piazzi, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM). Talks on the agenda of the meeting were held at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris, on the occasion of the PAM UNESCO Inter-Parliamentary Forum of Science, Technology and Innovation for the Mediterranean region, held between 9 and 10 November, 2010.
The 1st Meeting of the Secretaries General of PAM was held in Istanbul on the occasion of the IV Plenary Session hosted by the Turkish Parliament in October 2009. During that meeting, activities and ambitions, as well as best practices and lessons learned so far, had featured prominently.
The objective of these meetings is to gather the Secretaries General of all Parliaments of the Mediterranean States in order to foster further bilateral and multilateral parliamentary cooperation in the region and improve the understanding and sharing of the work achieved by PAM with the Parliaments of the region. Secretaries General of all Inter-parliamentary Organisations, with an interest in Mediterranean affairs, will also be invited to attend the Paris meeting.
H.E. Delcamp and Dr. Piazzi also discussed PAM’s latest achievements and future initiatives in order to ensure the best possible cooperation between the PAM Secretariat and the member parliaments on issues that are included in PAM’s calendar of activities for 2011.