Turkey’s AKP Deputy Chair in Yerevan Today for NATO Seminar

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chair of External Affairs and head of the US-Turkish Interparliamentary Friendship Group Suat Kınıklıoğlu will come to Armenia to participate in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s 73rd Rose-Roth seminar, whick kicks off in Yerevan today.

The three-day seminar will gather some 41 members of parliament from 16 NATO and partner countries, and 72 representatives from research institutes, NGOs, interparliamentary assemblies, international organizations and NATO, according to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly official website.

The seminar entitled “Regional Developments in the South Caucasus: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects” will not only focus on Armenia’s relations with NATO and the EU, but will be also devoted to regional security issues such as energy security, the Northern Caucasus, political developments and civil society and on regional relations in the South Caucasus Region.

This will be the second time that Yerevan hosts a Rose Roth seminar. The first one was hosted in 2005.