Colloquy on relations between Western Europe and Japan
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 25 January 1982
(20th Sitting) (see Doc.
4838
, motion for an order). Text
adopted by the Assembly on 25 January 1982 (20th Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Affirming its desire to develop its role as a forum
for the world's parliamentary democracies on the lines of its President's
recent proposals ;
2. Welcoming the desire expressed by the Committee of Ministers
to intensify political discussions in the Council of Europe ;
3. Recalling the success of the Panel on relations between Western
Europe and the United States of America (29-30 June 1981), sponsored
by the Secretary General, and of the parliamentary debate in autumn 1981
which drew the political lessons from it ;
4. Emphasising the great interest expressed on various occasions
by the Japanese governmental and parliamentary authorities in the
development of their relations with Western Europe in general and
the Council of Europe in particular ;
5. Proposing to hold a debate on Euro-Japanese relations during
the second part of the 34th Session,
6. Instructs the Secretary General to organise, in association
with its committees directly concerned, a select colloquy of politicians
and experts on relations between Western Europe and Japan.
