ITAR-TASS, Russia December 01, 2017 Friday 1:51 PM GMT Kiev fails to fulfil its duties as PABSEC chair - Russian foreign ministry MOSCOW December 1 Ukraine has failed to perform its duties as the chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Friday. MOSCOW, December 1. /TASS/. Ukraine has failed to perform its duties as the chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Friday. "It is becoming clear that Ukraine is failing to fulfil its obligations as the PABSEC chair: there are violations of the general norms and principles of work of multilateral organizations, the failure to provide full-format participation in the events for delegations and a breach of the basic principles of parliamentarism," the ministry stressed. The ministry reiterated that the Russian parliamentary delegation has not received an invitation to the PABSEC General Assembly session in Kiev, "which also violates the order of the PABSEC operation." "Unfortunately, these violations of the delegations’ rights occur under the passive eye of its other members. This issue is thought to require a serious discussion within the Assembly," the Foreign Ministry stated. "As for the Ukrainian amendments themselves, they were introduced to a pre-agreed draft declaration at the last moment and had a provocative character," the ministry noted. "The Ukrainians abused, in fact, their chairmanship functions, having ‘twisted the PABSEC delegates’ arms’ and achieved the adoption of non-balanced wordings that go beyond the economic theme that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation should be dealing with." "Moreover, the final declaration of the session that was dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Assembly and had to be steeped in the spirit of unification fell prey to Ukraine’s destructive aspirations," the ministry noted. The Foreign Ministry also pointed out that, according to the received information, "Ukraine’s chairmanship in fact barred the Armenian parliamentary delegation from joint work on the amendments and the final declaration on the issues of fundamental nature." "The Armenian delegation finally had to leave the conference hall in protest," the ministry reported. PABSEC-2017 The PABSEC was established on February 26, 1993, and includes 12 countries: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Armenia, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. According to the organization’s regulations, on July 6, 2017, Ukraine took over the PABSEC chairmanship for a six-month term. Albania will be chairing the PABSEC for the next six months. This year Russia did not participate in the PABSEC session in Kiev due to the absence of an invitation from Ukraine which had to be sent by Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andrey Paruby. The head of the Russian delegation at this organization, Mikhail Yemelyanov, called it an unprecedented case. The offensive incident occurred when Armenia’s delegation was not invited to discuss the final text of the declaration. According to Armenia’s parliament, the PABSEC General Assembly finally adopted the declaration with regard to Ukraine’s amendment on the necessity to help restore the territorial integrity of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation member states which runs counter to "the comprehensive principles of the international law: the principles of the non-use of force and the threat of force, territorial integrity and the peoples’ rights to free self-determination." The Armenian delegation left the PABSEC conference hall in Kiev in protest.