26/08/2004 | Standing Committee
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly is to meet on 7 September in Oslo at the invitation of the Norwegian Parliament. The meeting will be opened at 11am by the President of the Assembly, Peter Schieder, and the Speaker of the Storting (Norwegian Parliament), Jørgen Kosmo. The participants will exchange views with Jan Petersen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway (which currently holds the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe), and with Terje Rød-Larsen (to be confirmed), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process.
03/03/2004 | Standing Committee
The Assembly’s Standing Committee, meeting in Paris on 2 March, has restored the voting rights of the Irish parliamentary delegation, suspended since the end of January 2004 on the grounds of its male-only composition. The decision was made following the inclusion of Ann Ormonde in the delegation. On 27 January the Assembly decided to bar the all-male Irish and Maltese parliamentary delegations from voting in the Assembly or any of its bodies until at least one woman is appointed. The credentials of both delegations were challenged on the first day of the session following new rules which require national delegations to have at least one representative of each sex. The voting rights of the Maltese delegation remain suspended.
25/02/2004 | Standing Committee
French National Assembly President Jean-Louis Debré will address Council of Europe parliamentarians during a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly’s Standing Committee in Paris on 2 March. Items on the agenda include bioterrorism and environmental accounting as a sustainable development tool. The parliamentarians are also due to debate a report on links between Europeans living abroad and their countries of origin ;