03/03/2014 Standing Committee
A current affairs debate on the political crisis in Ukraine has been proposed by the Group of the Unified European Left (UEL) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to be held at the forthcoming meeting of PACE’s Standing Committee(*) scheduled in Paris on 7 March.
Debates on increasing the reporting of suspected sexual abuse of children; on the fight against AIDS among migrants and refugees; on Europe’s endangered heritage; and on the need to reinforce the training of legal professionals on the European Convention on Human Rights, will also feature on the agenda.
After the opening of the meeting by PACE President Anne Brasseur, and a statement by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the parliamentarians will hold an exchange of views with Ranko Krivokapić, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
The Standing Committee meeting, which is open to the press, will be held on Friday 7 March 2014 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Assemblée nationale (Salle Lamartine), 101 rue de l’Université, Paris 7ème (Metro station: Invalides/Assemblée nationale). At the opening of the meeting, the Standing Committee will decide whether to hold the current debate.
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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.