Opportunities to train MPs on how to conduct themselves in Parliament and to the media topped the agenda of a meeting on Thursday between National Assembly Chairman Ognyan Gerdzhikov and ambassadors and representatives of the UNDP and USAID. The project was proposed by the embassies of the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and Germany, and UNDP, UNDP`s Ivan Vlahov told reporters. Gerdzhikov met with acting UNDP Resident Representative Trine Lund-Jensen, US Ambassador Richard Miles, Dutch Ambassador Theo Six and with representatives of the embassies of Germany,Britain, and USAID. Participants in the meeting agreed that by September 15 a working group will prepare proposals on the content of the MPs` training programme. The aim of the initiative is to help the MPs get faster acquainted with their work as many of them are first-time MPs, Vlahov said. He said that the deputies will be trained how to draft bills, prepare budgets, address their voters and the media.

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