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Refugee Flow Exposes Black Sea Region to Greater Risk - National Assembly Chairperson

Varna, on the Black Sea, October 5 (BTA) - The refugee flow
exposes the Black Sea region to an even greater risk, National
Assembly Chairperson Tsetska Tsacheva said here on Monday,
opening the 45th Meeting of the Economic, Commercial,
Technological and Environmental Committee and the 46th Meeting
of the Legal and Political Affairs Committee of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
(PABSEC). Tsacheva said that today more than ever the region
needs concerted efforts, joint actions, understanding and mutual
 trust so as not to lose the balance between the national
interests and humaneness. She stressed that the autumn meetings
of two of PABSEC's key committees should help respond to the
serious challenges in the region. "Today Europe must show
solidarity and also strike the right balance in order to protect
 its security," Tsacheva said.

The Parliament Speaker noted that along with the question of the
 migratory pressure, two other problems stand out especially
sharply: the need for modern governance and for ensuring an
adequate legal framework for coping with corruption. Tsacheva
said that in the modern society electronic governance and
government are typical of the most economically and politically
developed countries. "The natural goal of the countries in our
region is to catch up with them and rank among the leaders," she
 said. The Parliament Chairperson said further that as members
of the Council of Europe the countries in the region have signed
 international documents and also the UN Convention on
counteracting corruption. Tsacheva noted the importance of both
the passage and consistent implementation of counter-corruption
frameworks at national level.

Deputy head of the Bulgarian delegation in PABSEC Pavel Hristov
said, addressing the forum, that very soon an electronic
certificate will show the identity of users of administrative
services in Bulgaria. Hristov said that such a certificate is
envisaged in the electronic ID bill drafted at the moment and
expected to be adopted in 2016.

Dwelling on the effective fight against corruption, Georgian MP
and rapporteur to the PABSEC's Legal and Political Affairs
Committee Mihail Matshavariani said that a number of factors are
 needed for it to to succeed: political will, legal framework
and reform of the court and the police. The guest said that the
intervention of the state in the relations between people and
the administration should be minimal which makes e-government
mandatory. He said also that the fight against corruption starts
 from the top of the state apparatus downwards, and not vice
versa.

PABSEC has 12 member states. The main priority in the work of
the organization is cooperation among the countries and
overcoming conflicts among them and among their ethnic
communities.