The Secretary General
is the head of the Secretariat.
The duties of the Secretary General are amongst others:
To represent the Assembly against any political, religious,
judicial or other authority.
To summon a session of the Secretariat.
To preside over the sessions of the Secretariat.
To recommend issues to the Secretariat.
To appoint the reporters of issues at the sessions of
the Secretariat.
To invite personalities in order for them to visit the
Secretariat's seat and follow its sessions.
To care and coordinate the action of any G.A. organs,
as well as the work committees in cooperation with the
President of the G.A. for the projection of the Assembly's
positions towards every international and European organization
and the mass media.
To promote the cooperation among the committees of religion
of the European parliaments and to care for everything
contributing to the promotion of the Assembly's declared
positions.
The Deputy Secretary General substitutes the Secretary
General during his absence, and is moreover invited
and attends the Secretariat's sessions having a right
to speech but without being eligible to vote.
The Secretariat is seated in offices assigned to it
by the Hellenic Parliament.
Invitations to the three standing annual sessions of
the Secretariat but also to any extraordinary ones,
are sent by the Secretary General to the members of
the Secretariat and the President of the G.A. at least
20 days prior to the sitting, including the agenda and
the reporters of issues, while an effort is additionally
made for the reports to be sent within 5 days prior
to the sitting.
The majority of the Secretariat's members have the right
to request from the General Secretary for the Secretariat
to convene by means of a fully justified letter, while
he is obliged as to summon the International Secretariat
to assemble within a month.
At the Secretariat's sessions the right to speech and
vote is solely confined to the members of the Secretariat.
All individuals invited by the Secretary General only
have the right to speech. The sessions of the General
Secretariat are not open to the public.
During the assemblies of the Secretariat and on responsibility
of the Secretary General, brief minutes are held by
official agents. Prior to the close of the sessions
the decisions made are read which are later written
in the Hellenic and Russian language into the book of
decisions and signed by the members of the Secretariat
at the following session.
Aristotelis A.Pavlidis
(Greece)
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