According to the schedule, the session will last until July 20.
Head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), State Duma MP Mikhail Emelyanov says Russia has not received an invitation to the General Assembly's session to be held in Kyiv in late 2017, which was for the first time over PABSEC's 25-year history, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Ukraine will for the first time host a session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2020, according to First Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and Ukraine's envoy in the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup Iryna Gerashchenko.