"Confidence in the EU can actually be increased only by increasing the visibility and roles of national parliament. Only in that way can the democratic deficit be reduced," Kovac told Hina.
He said that the two-day conference on the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy was very successful and that it drew attention to the importance of burning issues faced by the EU.
He noted that the conclusions had been adopted by consensus despite the fact that 15 delegations had put forward 73 amendments.
Two topics were the focus of an emergency debate on Wednesday: Syria and Libya. Participants discussed the conflicts and the humanitarian situation in the two countries and their impact on security and stability in the European Union.
Kovac expressed satisfaction that the conference had been attended by the chairman of the Turkish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Volkan Bozkir, who is the future president of the UN General Assembly, and the chairman of the British Parliament's Defence Select Committee, Tobias Ellwood.
"It will be hard for us to resolve the crises in Libya and Syria without dialogue with Turkey," Kovac said.