Working visit of Professor Osman Bulent Zulfikar, Rector of the Istanbul University, President of the BSUN to the PABSEC International Secretariat, Istanbul, 19 January 2026

On 19 January 2026, Professor Osman Bulent Zulfikar, Rector of the Istanbul University, President of the Black Sea University Network (BSUN) paid visit to the PABSEC International Secretariat and met with Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General. Prof. Zulficar was accompanied by Prof. Haluk Zulfikar, Chief Consultant to the Rector, Prof. Canan Cacına, Institutional Coordinator of Bilateral and Multilateral Relations Office, Assoc. Prof. Feyza Nur Tuncer Kılınç, Head of International Academic Relations Office.

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Visit of Representatives of the Union of Bosphorus Municipalities to the PABSEC International Secretariat, 11 December 2025

On 11 December 2025, the representatives of the Union of Bosphorus Municipalities, composed of Mr. Hüseyin Coşkun, Deputy Mayor of the Sariyer Municipality, member of the Union, Mr. Yasin Cemal Galata, Manager of the Union, and Ms. İrem Köse Reis, Head of the Fisheries Unit of Sarıyer Municipality, paid a visit to the PABSEC International Secretariat and met with Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General.

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66th Plenary Session of the PABSEC General Assembly, Sofia, 24–25 November 2025

The Opening Ceremony was addressed by Mr. Dragomir Stoynev, Vice-President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. Mr. Shalva Papuashvili, Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, participated as a Special Guest and addressed the participants. Opening remarks were also delivered by Mr. Georg Georgiev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria and BSEC Chairman-in-Office, Mr. Petar Kanev, Head of the PABSEC Bulgarian Delegation and Mr. Asaf Hajiyev, PABSEC Secretary General.

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