24/04/2023 | Session
Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has answered parliamentarians’ questions at the PACE Spring session’s Question Time. During a lively Q & A session, Marija Pejčinović Burić underlined the importance of the Fourth Summit of the Heads of State and Government in Reykjavik...
29/01/2023 | Session
An urgent debate on the legal and human rights aspects of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine, with the participation of Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head of the Center for Civil Liberties, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was one the highlights of the Winter plenary session of the...
27/01/2023 | Session
The development and use of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) – that can select and attack targets without human intervention – requires clear regulation to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights, PACE has said. Approving a resolution based on a report by Damien...
27/01/2023 | Session
The Assembly has emphasised the essential role of universities and research institutes in upholding Council of Europe values and entrenching them in the social fabric. In the view of parliamentarians, universities have real potential to facilitate the implementation of Council of Europe...
26/01/2023 | Session
The Council of Europe should take the lead in creating new legal instruments to prevent environmental damage during armed conflicts and reduce its scale as much as possible, PACE has said. Approving a resolution and recommendation based on a report by John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA), the...
26/01/2023 | Session
The Prime Minister of Iceland, Katrin Jakobsdóttir, commended the response of the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly to the major crises in the past few years. “It was able to adapt its procedures to continuing its work through the pandemic and demonstrated its unity around the...
26/01/2023 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has unanimously demanded the setting up of a special international criminal tribunal in The Hague to prosecute Russian and Belarusian political and military leaders who “planned, prepared, initiated or executed” Russia’s war of aggression...
26/01/2023 | Session
PACE has welcomed the far-reaching reforms undertaken by the Republic of Moldova – notably in the judiciary and the fight against corruption – to consolidate democratic institutions, despite “the difficulties and challenges” including the humanitarian crisis resulting from the outbreak of the war...
26/01/2023 | Session
“The Lachin corridor is a strip of territory approximately 5 km wide which connects the Armenian border over 65 km to the territory called Nagorno-Karabakh or Artsakh by Armenia and Karabakh by Azerbaijan. It is a strategic place which was the subject of special provisions during the...
26/01/2023 | Session
In adopting a resolution today, based on a report by Piero Fassino (Italie, SOC) – which takes stock of the PACE monitoring activities in 2022 and makes a series of assessments of the countries under a full monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as of countries that...
25/01/2023 | Session
At a defining moment in European history, Council of Europe member states, at the highest political level, should “reaffirm their unity around common values and their unfaltering commitment to multilateralism based on international law”, PACE has said. Approving a recommendation based on a report...
25/01/2023 | Session
Today the Assembly emphasised the positive influence of the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection and Prevention of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence – the Istanbul Convention – on national legislation against gender-based violence and the changes it has made in policies and...