12/05/2004 | Bureau
Assembly President Peter Schieder has sent a letter to Stéphane Valéri, President of the National Council of Monaco, informing him of the Assembly Bureau’s decision to grant the Monaco Parliament special guest status with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Monaco will therefore be able to occupy two seats in the Assembly from the summer plenary session (21-25 June 2004) onwards. The Bureau’s decision follows Opinion 250 (2004) on the Principality of Monaco’s application for membership of the Council of Europe, adopted by the Assembly on 27 April 2004.
02/04/2004 | Bureau
The Assembly’s Bureau will hold an exchange of views with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül and will hear a welcome address by the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Bülent Arınç. Items on the agenda include updating the draft agenda of the Assembly’s April session (26-30 April 2004), the case of Bulgarian medical staff detained in Libya, the request to monitor Latvia, the Assembly’s observation of elections in Russia and Georgia and preparations for the European Conference of Presidents of Parliaments (17-19 May 2004).
03/03/2004 | Bureau
Meeting in Paris on 1 March, the Assembly's Bureau adopted a provisional agenda for the Assembly’s spring session (26-30 April 2004). Main items include an opinion on the Principality of Monaco's application for membership of the Council of Europe, disappeared persons in Belarus and euthanasia.
01/03/2004 | Bureau
Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, LDR), a member of the Assembly’s Bureau, departs today on a three-day fact-finding visit to Tripoli, Libya, where he will investigate a motion for a resolution alleging inhuman treatment of detained Bulgarian medical staff. Mr Eörsi will report back to the Bureau with any proposals for follow-up to the motion.