22/11/2013 Standing Committee
"Since Austria joined the Council of Europe in 1956, there has been a very strong connection between our parliament and your Parliamentary Assembly," said the President of Austria's Federal Council Reinhardt Todt, speaking this morning to PACE's Standing Committee in Vienna.
"I would like to pay tribute to a great European, the Austrian Peter Schieder, who passed away last October. He was a member of your Assembly for 22 years, and was also its President. I would also like to commend your work which, like that carried out by Peter Schieder throughout his career, seeks to advance and develop the Parliamentary Assembly," he said.