Serbian parliament speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic stated that the main topic of the 35th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), which will be held from June 1 to 3 in Belgrade, will be the role of the parliament in strengthening international law.

Parliamentarians from 12 BSEC's member-states will during the meeting discuss economic, cultural and other fields of cooperation, Dejanovic told in Istanbul, where she is paying a visit to PABSEC Secretariat.

She there signed documents needed for holding the organization's forthcoming session in Belgrade.

The parliament speaker specified that she signed the convocation of the session, by which she invited all 12 parliaments of the member-states, as well as 40 observers from the states which are to attend the meeting.

Dejanovic added that she and PABSEC Sec General Alexey Kudriavtsev made arrangements for the technical details of the 35th PABSEC session.

She pointed out that, in accordance with the alphabetical rotating chairmanship principle, the National Assembly of Serbia will be chairing the PABSEC in the first half of 2010. PABSEC is one of the four bodies of the BSEC.

BSEC comprises 12 states of the Black Sea region, and Serbia has been a full member since Oct 2004.