15/04/2024 | President
“Ukraine needs our support and not just words – it needs right now the vital munitions which will allow it to continue to defend itself, to defend us all and to defend the most fundamental right of all laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights – the right of people to life,” PACE...
20/03/2024 | President
Following yesterday's decision by the International Olympic Committee not to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and responding to a call by Ukraine’s Olympic Champions* urging PACE’s continued support for a total ban on...
17/03/2024 | President
Following the Presidential election in Russia, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos today made the following statement: "Some minutes ago, the polling stations in the so-called ‘elections’ in the Russian Federation closed and the exit polls announced the projections. And there was little surprise...
12/03/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has urged more effective and properly institutionalised co-operation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe during a meeting yesterday in New York with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is a former member of PACE. Such co-operation would...
07/03/2024 | President
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has recalled the global challenge of violence against women. “Let us remember that violence against women in all their diversity continues to be the most widespread human rights violation worldwide,” he said...
07/03/2024 | President
Joint statement by PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos and the Chair of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination Mariia Mezentseva, on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2024 Gender inequality continues to trigger gender-based violence, in our continent and beyond. There is...
07/03/2024 | Standing Committee
"The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was born in 1789 in the wake of the French Revolution. Since then, individual rights and freedom have become integral parts of our societies. However, the reality is that we still have to continue to defend them again and again against...
26/02/2024 | President
“There cannot be free and fair elections in a situation where freedoms of speech, assembly and association are curtailed; where opposition political parties are liquidated and their leaders persecuted; where the freedom of the media is not respected; and where there is no redress against these...
23/02/2024 | President
Liechtenstein Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sport and President of the Committee of Ministers, Dominique Hasler, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, and the Secretary General, Marija Pejčinović Burić, today made the following statement on the occasion...
23/02/2024 | President
“The worst that can happen is for us to get used to this war, to start perceiving it as a new normality. We must avoid this at all costs,” today said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos in a ceremony to mark two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “But I also ask myself what we...
16/02/2024 | President
Following the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President Theodoros Rousopoulos made the following statement: "I am deeply shocked by today's terrible news of the death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny...
24/01/2024 | President
“Almost 80 years ago, in March 1945, a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old girl named Anne Frank perished in the Bergen-Belsen camp. Without the diary she wrote between the ages of 13 and 15, Anne's fate would be indistinguishable from that of the one and a half million children who vanished under...