Increasing the number of Vice-Presidents of the Assembly form fourteen to seventeen

Resolution 959 (1991)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

See Doc. 6393, report of the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Rapporteur : Sir Geoffrey Finsberg. Text adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 11 March 1991.

Thesaurus

1. The Assembly welcomes the accession of Hungary to the Council of Europe on 6 November 1990, and of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on 21 February 1991, as well as the prospects for the accession of other Central and East European countries.

2. It believes that this enlargement of the Council of Europe should be accompanied by an increase in the number of its Vice-Presidents.

3. Consequently, the Assembly decides :

3.1 to change the number of Vice-Presidents from fourteen to seventeen in order to maintain the right balance in the Bureau of the Assembly ;

3.2 to amend Rule 8, paragraph 1, Rule 9, paragraph 6, and Rule 42, paragraph 2, of the Rules of Procedure accordingly ;

3.3 to increase by one the number of Vice-Presidents, at the opening of the 43rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly, to take account of the countries which have acceded to the Council of Europe ;

3.4 to invite the Bureau and the Standing Committee to consider allocating the two other vice-presidencies as other states of Central and Eastern Europe accede to the Council of Europe.