On Monday, 2 February, a press conference on the Eastern Partnership and situation in Ukraine will be held in the Saeima as a part of the Meeting of the Chairpersons of COSAC (Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union).

Participants of the press conference will be Lolita Čigāne, Chairperson of the European Affairs Committee of the Saeima; Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia; Urban Ahlin, Speaker of the Riksdag; and Ostap Semerak, First Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on European Integration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

The press conference will be held in the Red Room of the Saeima, Jēkaba iela 11 at 13:40. 

The Meeting of the Chairpersons of COSAC will be dedicated to the Eastern Partnership and its future challenges, priorities of the Latvian Presidency, as well as the prospects for the European Union after the election of the new European Commission. 

The meetings of the Chairpersons of COSAC are held twice a year and hosted by the national parliament of the country presiding over the Council of the EU. These meetings gather chairpersons of the European affairs committees from all the national parliaments of the EU member states, members of the European Parliament, as well as other relevant officials and experts. 

The programme of the event is available at http://parleu2015.lv/files/cosac/en-draft-programme_cosac-chairpersons-2.pdf. 

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