The Chair of the Center for the Black Sea and Central Asia (KORA) of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Prof. Dr. Ayşe AYATA, invited the BSEC PERMIS Secretary General Ambassador M.B. CHRISTIDES to deliver the inaugural speech of a series of seminars that the Center will host in its premises on issues related to the wider Black Sea region and to the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.