20/10/2022 | Secretary General of the Assembly
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a meeting of Secretaries General of parliament on Thursday 20 October, in the chamber of the Palais de l’Europe in Strasbourg. After welcome addresses by PACE President Tiny Kox and the PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou...
20/10/2022 | Secretary General of the Assembly
“Thanks to your efforts and creativity, you have enabled your respective parliaments to continue to function in times of Covid and to maintain dialogue with our Parliamentary Assembly and the continuity of your work,” said PACE President Tiny Kox, opening a meeting of Secretaries General of...
14/10/2022 | Session
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) during its Autumn plenary session (Strasbourg, 10 to 14 October 2022). The Assembly also held an urgent debate on "Further escalation in the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine...
13/10/2022 | President
“Today, we see the historically important results of dialogue in Europe, between Europeans. We see actions that have made Europe unprecedentedly stronger. Never yet in history was united Europe as strong as it is today. So, focus on everything that is needed to prevent the Russian terrorists from...
13/10/2022 | Session
PACE has strongly condemned the attempted annexation of Ukrainian regions by Russia, describing the so-called referendums in these regions as “an affront to international law” and “null and void, with no legal or political effects”. The Assembly was debating a report by Emanuelis Zingeris...
10/10/2022 | President
“The Council of Europe supports the brave struggle of the people of Ukraine to protect, uphold and regain national sovereignty and territorial integrity of their country and our member State” President Tiny Kox said today at the opening the 2022 Autumn Session of the Council of Europe...
10/10/2022 | President
Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, Simon Coveney, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, have made the following...
10/10/2022 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The Ukrainian diaspora in Alsace, the second largest in France, saw its role and responsibilities change after the 24 February 2022 when Russia's aggression against Ukraine began. In an exchange of views held with the Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration, Iryna Petrovska, Vice-President of...
30/09/2022 | President
Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, Simon Coveney, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tiny Kox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, have made the following...
21/09/2022 | President
Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has made the following statement: “I strongly condemn the decision to organise so-called ‘referendums’ in the areas of Ukraine illegally occupied by the Russian army. This is a clear attempt to annex part of...
17/09/2022 | President
Statement by PACE President Tiny Kox: "Today, 17 September 2022, is a sad day for Europe. As of today, more than 140 million Russian citizens will be deprived of their right to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. This is a direct and inevitable consequence of the ending of the Russian...
06/09/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights held its meeting in Bern and Neuchâtel (Switzerland) on 5 and 6 September 2022. In particular, it discussed the report of its ad hoc sub-committee which visited Kyiv, Bucha and Irpin at the end of June, and decided to declassify this document...