The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which brings together around 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member states, met in the Moldovan capital Chisinau on Friday 21 November 2025.
On 14 November 2025 the Republic of Moldova began its six-month Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the Organisation’s executive body. The Assembly’s Standing Committee traditionally meets in the capital of the country holding the Presidency.
The meeting was opened by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, followed by a welcome address by the President of the Moldovan Parliament Igor Grosu.
The parliamentarians then held an exchange of views with the Republic of Moldova's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Mihai Popșoi, in the framework of the Moldovan Presidency.
There will then bewas then a current affairs debate on "Citizens’ mobilisation in the defence of human rights and democracy: recent developments in Latvia", opened by Edmunds Cepurītis (Latvia, SOC) and with the participation of Beata Jonite, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the MARTA Centre in Latvia.
The agenda also included a debate on the Assembly’s observation of the recent parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova, as well as a debate on preventing and combating gender discrimination in health.
The parliamentarians also discussed a trio of reports on the Assembly’s own functioning, covering managing conflicts of interest in the Assembly and increasing members’ participation in its work, as well as the modification of various provisions of its Rules of Procedure.
The day concluded with a parliamentary round table, organised by the PACE Parliamentary and Electoral Co-operation Division together with the Women@PACE group and the Moldovan delegation to the Assembly, on “Violence against women and the role of parliaments and parliamentarians in implementing the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention”.
The Standing Committee, which acts on the Assembly’s behalf between plenary sessions, is made up of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Assembly as well as the chairpersons of its five political groups, its 46 national delegations and its nine committees.
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Friday 21 November 2025
Doc. 16295 (Report on credentials) Examination of credentials of representatives and substitutes Doc. 16296 (Election observation report) Observation of the parliamentary elections in Republic of Moldova (28 September 2025) Doc. 16286 (Report) Preventing and combating gender discrimination in health Doc. 16287 (Report) Identifying and managing conflicts of interest in the Parliamentary Assembly Doc. 16292 (Report) Modification of various provisions of the Assembly's Rules of Procedure Doc. 16293 (Report) Increasing members’ active participation in the work of the Parliamentary Assembly