Armenia and Azerbaijan support the rotation principle for BSEC management, Chairman of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs Gagik Minasyan said.

As he told a news conference in Yerevan, the issue of organization’s new Secretary General election was discussed at PABSEC regular meeting in Kiev, on May 16-17.

“Secretary General election is a very long and hard process,” Minasyan remarked, adding that Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, having the largest PABSEC delegations, wanted to make a decision themselves, thus stirring up resentment among other countries.

Minasyan said that the election of BSEC Secretary General needs not only the majority of PA deputies, but the majority of delegation votes as well. He noted that it was decided to create a working group including one representative from each member state to meet in Istanbul on June 13-14 and discuss the issue.

The election will take place during PABSEC meeting to be held in Kyiv on June 30.