Strasbourg, 03.09.2010 – PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu has praised Sweden for its “active role” in both the Council of Europe and the European Union, and urged it to continue supporting the reform processes within both organisations, including EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights.
At meetings today in Stockholm, Swedish EU Affairs Minister Birgitta Ohlson and the State Secretary to the Prime Minister Gustaf Lind discussed current priorities of the Council of Europe with the President, and reiterated Sweden’s firm support for Turkish accession to the EU.
President Çavusoglu was attending two seminars on the role of Turkey in the European Union, organised in Stockholm and Göteborg by the Swedish-Turkish Federation.
