H.E. the PUIC Secretary General participated in the PABSEC Meeting of Secretaries General held in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey on 6 February, 2017. H.E. the Secretary General addressed the meeting and expressed the readiness of the PUIC General Secretariat to encourage mutual cooperation and understanding between the two Associations of the Secretaries General.  

His Excellency also declared that he had just come from the 12th Session of the PUIC Conference and the related meetings hosted generously by the Malian National Assembly in Bamako, on 27-28 January 2017, which was crowned with success, in attendance of around 40 Parliaments. During PUIC Conference, the PUIC Association of the Secretaries General held a meeting in which discussed its organizational regulation and submitted its recommendations to the Conference, which complied by announcing the establishment of the Association of Secretaries-General of the Member Parliaments. It may be useful to point out to some of the objectives of the PUIC Association of Secretaries-General, which may be of benefit to your distinguished meeting:

• Providing a framework for achieving fruitful and constructive cooperation among the General Secretariats of the PUIC.
• Exchanging practical and scientific experiences and expertise aimed at enhancing and upgrading performance at the General Secretariat.
• Supporting contacts, cooperation and coordination among the General Secretariats of the Member Parliaments in order to realize common purposes.”