Imereti. On November14, at the initiative of the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, the "Open Society – Georgia” Foundation has organized the meeting between the CSO representatives and the members of the legislative body, attended by up to 60 CSO representatives working in various fields. The meeting aimed at examining and discussing the relations between the civil sector and the Parliament.The Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia Davit Usupashvili has noted at the meeting that the Parliament is eager to cooperate actively with and listen to the qualified recommendations of the civil sector in various areas. "We look forward to your initiatives on any topic – the words of all of you will be written down, analyzed and taken into consideration to the extent possible”, – the Chairman of the Parliament said.Concrete staff members will be allocated in all parliamentary committees to ensure the transparency of the Parliament’s activities and effective communication, who will serve as contact persons for the CSOs having the interest and recommendations in the respective fields. This way more CSOs will be able to have business relations with one or several committees and furnish them with recommendations, critical opinions, initiatives, studies, etc."With respect of the accountability of the executive authorities the Parliament needs your substantial assistance. ... Everyone who is capable of advising and has a desire to do so, is the adviser and everyone who has ideas can bring those ideas to the Parliament. Afterwards, free competition must filter the ideas”, Davit Usupashvili has said.Apart from searching for the forms and mechanisms of relations between the Parliament and the civil sector, CSO representatives have expressed certain remarks and recommendations on the work of the Parliament. For instance, in the opinion of the Editor of newspaper "Rezonansi” and the Chair of the Press Association Lasha Tughushi, the issues that attract high public interest must be examined in an increased public environment. As an example, Tughushi referred to the episode related to the TV Company "Peak”.The pace of the Parliament’s work was also a part of the meeting’s focus. Human rights activist Nana Kakabadze has emphasized that the Parliamentary investigative group is not still set up. Further, part of the meeting participants spoke about the determination of status of prisoners including the political prisoners. Chair of the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association Tamar Chugoshvili has remembered the gaps in relations with the Parliament of previous calling and expressed hope that the same precedents will not be allowed this time.Chair of the Civil Society Institute Vazha Salamadze has noted that the format of cooperation offered by the Parliament to the civil sector is totally acceptable. According to him, most probably it will be more reasonable to have this format placed in institutional frames, strengthened with concrete normative acts and to select the form that will make these relations independent from the change of authorities or personal relationships. Today the format offered by the Parliament is its good will, and we offer to set up the working group that will develop the document to formalize these relations, Vazha Salamadze noted.The names of contact persons in the parliamentary committees will be made known from the next week, and accordingly, the relations of various forms and content between the CSOs and the country’s chief legislative body will take off from the next week.