18/04/2024 | Session
“Aggressive power politics must not prevail. Those challenging our common commitment to the rules base international order must be held to account,” was the message at the heart of His Serene Highness Hereditary Prince Alois von und zu Liechtenstein’s address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
18/04/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today said that our planet’s seas and oceans are “complex ecosystems that are vital for sustaining biodiversity and the livelihood of humans, as well as for regulating the global climate” and added that they could be our “allies” in mitigating...
17/04/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today condemned the “severe persecution” and repression of dissent in Russia and Belarus amid the illegal full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. In adopting a resolution based on the report by Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland...
17/04/2024 | Session
PACE has paid tribute to Alexei Navalny, declaring that the Russian state bears full responsibility for his death, and urged a series of sweeping measures to counter what it called Vladimir Putin’s “totalitarian regime”. Unanimously adopting a resolution based on a report by Emanuelis Zingeris...
16/04/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg, today recommended “the seizure of Russian state assets and their use” in support of the reconstruction of Ukraine. This course of action would “strengthen Ukraine, ensure the accountability of...
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...
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...
07/03/2024 | Standing Committee
"This is not the time to succumb to war fatigue. While we recognise the social and economic challenges facing our societies, they pale in comparison to the devastation caused by Russia. As parliamentarians of democratic states, it is our responsibility to build consensus, to explain the need for...
07/03/2024 | Standing Committee
"I am looking at the image of smiling Alexei, in fact the last known image of him being alive, and I know that Putin has lost", Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD) today said at the opening of a current affairs debate on the death of Alexei Navalny. "Perhaps he thought that by killing Alexei...
07/03/2024 | Standing Committee
“These are difficult times within the Council of Europe itself, when we see states carrying out aggression against other member states and committing crimes, carrying out operations to forcibly displace populations or erase their cultural heritage,” said Gérard Larcher, President of the French...