10/05/2013 | President
PACE President, Jean-Claude Mignon, will make an official visit to Turkey from 13 to 15 May, during which he is due to meet the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for the Family and Social Policy.
07/05/2013 | President
PACE and the European Parliament must speak with one voice in the fields of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon underlined at the end of his two-day visit to the European Parliament in Brussels, on 6 and 7 May.
06/05/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has voiced concern about the current situation in the Republic of Moldova, where a political struggle seems to be in danger of jeopardising the Moldovan people’s aspirations on the road to European integration.
02/05/2013 | President
PACE President, Jean-Claude Mignon, will give a speech at the ceremony to be held on 10 May in Girona in tribute to the former President of the Assembly, Lluís Maria de Puig, who died in December 2012. He will be accompanied by the Secretary General of the Assembly, Wojciech Sawicki.
02/05/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon will meet in Brussels on 6 and 7 May, Miguel Martinez, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs...
24/04/2013 | President
“In the run-up to my forthcoming official visit to Turkey, scheduled for 13-15 May 2013, I welcome the adoption by the Assembly of Resolution 1925 (2013) on Post-Monitoring Dialogue with Turkey, which acknowledges the major progress made by the authorities in honouring their undertakings and obligations to the Council of Europe, while drawing up a list of specific recommendations geared to speeding up this process,”...
19/04/2013 | President
Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and Björn von Sydow (Sweden, SOC), Rapporteur on the situation in Kosovo*, have welcomed the final agreement to normalise relations between Belgrade and Priština, reached today in Brussels following more than six months and ten rounds of intense negotiations between Prime Ministers Dacic and Thaci.
18/04/2013 | President
“On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, I would like to pay tribute to the courageous men and women who took part in this historic act of resistance and remember the sacrifice of the victims,” PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon said today.
17/04/2013 | President
The Speaker of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin has accepted an invitation to address the Parliamentary Assembly during its October session. PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon made the announcement following meetings yesterday in Moscow with Mr Naryshkin and Russia’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Alexey Meshkov.
16/04/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has strongly condemned the act of violence which caused three deaths and up to 100 casualties in the city of Boston: “I would like first of all to express the sympathy of the Parliamentary Assembly to the families and loved ones of the victims,..."
11/04/2013 | President
Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is to make a working visit to Moscow from 14 to 17 April during which he will attend the 10th Council of Europe Conference of Culture Ministers at the Bolshoi Theatre and will hold high-level bilateral meetings with members of the Russian Government.
08/04/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon this morning welcomed the liberation by the Ukrainian authorities of former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko. “I warmly welcome the liberation of Mr Lutsenko. During my recent visit to Ukraine I had a long talk with President Yanukovich during which I again expressed my position, and that of the Parliamentary Assembly, that the problem of imprisoned former government members needed to be swiftly resolved. I am happy that this message was heard..."