14/10/2016 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held this afternoon a free debate on current issues not included in the session agenda. Twenty-two Assembly members took the floor.
13/10/2016 | Session
“When one of our friends in the Council of Europe has a problem, we must morally stand beside them, but we must also help them,” said Ian Liddell-Grainger opening today’s current affairs debate.
13/10/2016 | Session
“Human rights are and must remain non-negotiable,” German Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told parliamentarians. “They are not just an instrument to be used when it suits on the road to peace.”
13/10/2016 | Session
The Assembly believes that prevention must lie “at the heart of all efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation” and involve all the players concerned. Information campaigns must include both women and men in the communities concerned.
13/10/2016 | Session
PACE called on member States to improve the protection of unaccompanied migrant minors and to avoid them going missing. They must be treated first and foremost as children, not as migrants, declared the Assembly.
12/10/2016 | Session
The Assembly called for a more integrated approach to promoting access to sport through increased co-operation between stakeholders and through establishing effective monitoring mechanisms of any form of discrimination.
12/10/2016 | Session
It is time for a new Council of Europe summit – bringing together heads of state and government from the 47 member states – to relaunch the organisation and reaffirm its core mission.
12/10/2016 | Session
"Both governments and the Olympic movement have a common objective, and that is a more robust, more efficient and more transparent anti-doping system,” the President of the International Olympic Committee said today.
12/10/2016 | Session
"We will pursue our programme of constitutional and institutional reforms and we will continue to take into consideration the Council of Europe recommendations,” said Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Foreign Minister of Turkey.
12/10/2016 | Session
The Assembly restated its full support for the ICC, the first ever permanent independent judicial institution with jurisdiction over individuals accused of the most serious crimes affecting the whole international community.
12/10/2016 | Session
PACE has said that only “significant and measurable progress” by Russia towards implementation of three recent resolutions of the Assembly* can form the basis for restoration of a fully-fledged, mutually respectful dialogue.
12/10/2016 | Session
the Parliamentary Assembly has said that Russia must guarantee the human rights of all inhabitants of Crimea and of the “DPR” and “LPR”, territories where it exercises de facto control, adopting a resolution today.