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PACE Standing Committee to meet in Skopje

12/05/2010 Standing Committee

Strasbourg, 12.05.2010 – The Standing Committee (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will be meeting in Skopje on Friday 21 May 2010 to discuss the priorities of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, which, since yesterday, has held the chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers, the Organisation’s executive body. 

After the opening of the meeting by Mevlüt Çavusoglu, President of the PACE, and a welcoming address by Trajko Veljanoski, President of the Assembly of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, the Standing Committee will hold an exchange of views with Antonio Miloshoski, Minister for Foreign Affairs of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, who will be chairing the Committee of Ministers for the next six months.
 
The agenda will also include reports on reinforcing measures against sex offenders, the European civil aviation industry confronted with the global financial andeconomic crisis, geothermal energy: a local answer to a hot topic? and noise and light pollution. 
 
Other topics of discussion will be the preparation of a code of good practice in the field of political parties, gender budgeting as a tool for safeguarding women’s health, reinforcing the effectiveness of Council of Europe treaty law, the draft third Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Extradition and the expenditure of the Parliamentary Assembly for the 2011 financial year. 
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The meeting of the Standing Committee, which is open to the press, will take place on Friday 21 May at the Assembly of the Republic (Bul. 11, Oktomvri B.B., Skopje), from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
 
On the same day, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, President of the PACE, and Trajko Veljanoski, President of the Assembly of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” will meet the press in the Assembly premises (time to be confirmed).
 
Draft agenda of the Standing Committee meeting
 
Contact :   Nathalie Bargellini, PACE Communication Division, mob. +33 (0)6 65 40 32 82 - e-mail : [email protected]
 
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(*) The Standing Committee, which acts on the Assembly’s behalf between plenary sessions, consists of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Assembly, the chairpersons of political groups, the chairpersons of national delegations and the committees chairpersons.