Publicat pe 22/11/2019

Thessaloniki, November 22^nd, 2019: The Delegation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (CCIR) attended on Friday, November 22^nd, at the 61^st meeting of the Steering Committee of the Business Council of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (CA BSEC) under the auspices of the current Greek Presidency. Between January 1^st and June 30^th, 2020, Romania will take over the rotating management of the BSEC, and, in this context, the CCIR will assume the chairmanship of the BSEC Business Council.

The priority of Romania’s mandate is to continue the development of regional intergovernmental economic cooperation within the Organization, with emphasis on the development of the following areas: transport, crime-fighting, energy, environment and the organization of BSEC projects, in accordance with the existing financial resources. CCIR was designated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania as a representative of the business community in Romania at the BSEC Business Council.

Present at the meeting, the director of the External Relations Directorate of CCIR, Mr. Eduard Costin, said: “It is very important to promote stability in the Black Sea region, by facilitating contacts between the business communities in the area, which will ultimately contribute to the economic revitalization of the BSEC member states. Also, in view of the takeover by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania of the Presidency of the Business Council of the BSEC, starting with January 2020, it is necessary to have a sustained dialogue with the representatives of the other chambers of commerce, present at this event, on the plan of action that we want to implement, as well as on the projects that CCIR wants to carry out during this period ”.

Background

BSEC was established in Istanbul in 1992 with eleven heads of state and governments (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine, signing the “Declaration of the Summit on Economic Cooperation of the Black Sea” and “Bosphorus Declaration”. In June 1998, at Yalta, the “OCEMN Carta” was signed, which entered into force on May 1^st, 1999, and which became the fundamental document of the Organization. With the accession of Serbia in April 2003, the number of BSEC members increased to twelve.