05/03/2013 Standing Committee
Strasbourg, 05.03.2013 – Debates on the industrial heritage in Europe, and on reinforcing the selection processes for experts of key Council of Europe human rights monitoring mechanisms, will feature on the agenda of the Standing Committee (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at its meeting in Paris on Friday 8 March 2013.
After the opening of the meeting by PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon, the parliamentarians will hold an exchange of views with Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. They will then discuss the recent parliamentary elections in Monaco.
At the end of the meeting, the parliamentarians will be received by Claude Bartolone, Speaker of the French National Assembly.
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The Standing Committee meeting, which is open to the press, will be held on Friday 8 March 2013 from 9 am to 12.30 pm at the Assemblée nationale (Salle Lamartine), 101 rue de l’Université, Paris 7ème (Metro station: Invalides/Assemblée nationale).
Contact: PACE Communication Division, tel. +33 3 88 41 31 93
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(*) 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, the chairpersons of political groups, the chairpersons of national delegations and the committee chairpersons, totalling some 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe's 47 member States.