31/03/2010 | President
"The Council of Europe strongly condemns the explosions in Dagestan (Russian Federation), which come only two days after the terrorist attacks in Moscow," said the Chair of the Committee of Ministers Micheline Calmy-Rey, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly Mevlüt Çavusoglu and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland in a joint statement. "We reiterate our message of support for and solidarity with the Russian Federation at this very difficult moment."
29/03/2010 | President
"I wish to express my most sincere condolences to the families of those who lost their lives as a result of these horrendous attacks, and my solidarity with those injured. In our societies there is no place for those who use bombs to kill innocent people. Such acts will achieve nothing, but will sow only terror and grief. The Russian authorities can count on the full support of the Parliamentary Assembly in combating those who were behind this atrocity," declared Mevlüt Çavusoglu, following the two bomb attacks on the Moscow Metro this morning.
29/03/2010 | President
PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu will be attending the 122nd Assembly of the Interparliamentary Union, which will be looking at the role of parliaments in political reconciliation and good governance, interparliamentary co-operation in the global fight against organised crime and trafficking in human beings, and the participation of young people in the democratic process.
29/03/2010 | President
“Political reconciliation is rooted in our Organisation and is part of its DNA,” said PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu, speaking at the 122nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, being held in Bangkok. “Reconciliation has always been the 'raison d’être’ of the Council of Europe. The fundamental values that we support and promote - democracy, human rights and the rule of law - are the aim of our Organisation, but they are also a means to an end: namely, reconciliation and long-lasting peace on our continent,” he added.
25/03/2010 | President
PACE President, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, has warmly welcomed the imminent setting up of a parliamentary committee in Moldova to revise Article 78 of the Constitution – concerning the election of the President of the Republic – and said it was “encouraging” that all political forces, including the opposition, have designated representatives to it.
23/03/2010 | President
"The Council of Europe strongly condemns the executions of Andrei Zhuk and Vasily Yuzepchuk in Belarus," declared today the Chair of the Committee of Ministers Micheline Calmy-Rey, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly Mevlüt Çavusoglu, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland.
19/03/2010 | President
PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu will make an official visit to Moldova from 22 to 25 March 2010, where he aims to promote stability and fully functioning democratic institutions, and contribute to moving the current political situation in the country forward.
18/03/2010 | President
PACE’s Presidential Committee, headed by its President Mevlüt Çavusoglu, today met in Paris with Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, the current Chair of the Committee of Ministers, and its next Chair the Foreign Minister of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" Antonio Milososki, as well as members of the Bureau of the Committee of Ministers, in the presence of Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjörn Jagland.
16/03/2010 | President
“I came to Kazakhstan with an offer to upgrade co-operation with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and I am very glad that we found full understanding with the highest authorities of the country on this matter,” declared the Assembly’s President Mevlüt Çavusoglu at the end of an official visit to Kazakhstan on 15-16 March 2010.
12/03/2010 | President
PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu is to make an official visit to Kazakhstan from 15 to 18 March. Meetings are scheduled with the President of the Republic, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Chairman of Mazhilis (lower House of Parliament), Ural Muhamedzhanov, the Chairman of the Senate, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, and with the State Secretary and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kanat Saudabayev.
09/03/2010 | President
“One of the priorities of my presidency is to strengthen co-operation with the European Parliament, in particular through PACE involvement in the recently set-up parliamentary branch of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Euronid, through more regular committee meetings and closer contacts between PACE and EP rapporteurs,” the President of the Parliamentary Assembly Mevlüt Cavusoglu said at the end of meetings with the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek and leaders of the EP’s political groups in Strasbourg on 8-9 March.
05/03/2010 | President
PACE President, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, will be holding talks with the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, in Strasbourg on 8 March 2010. On the same day and the following day, 9 March, Mr Çavusoglu will also be meeting the leaders of the political groups in the European Parliament: Joseph Daul (EPP), Martin Schulz (PES), Graham Watson (ALDE) and Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Greens/European Free Alliance), as well as Stefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement.