27/02/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), and PACE General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), have reacted to today’s judgment of a court in Moscow, sentencing Oleg Orlov, co...
23/02/2024 | President
Liechtenstein Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Sport and President of the Committee of Ministers, Dominique Hasler, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, and the Secretary General, Marija Pejčinović Burić, today made the following statement on the occasion...
23/02/2024 | President
“The worst that can happen is for us to get used to this war, to start perceiving it as a new normality. We must avoid this at all costs,” today said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos in a ceremony to mark two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “But I also ask myself what we...
30/01/2024 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The Council of Europe should lead a process for “the seizure of Russian state assets and their use in support of the reconstruction of Ukraine”, according to PACE’s Political Affairs Committee. In a draft resolution based on a report by Lulzim Basha (Albania, EPP/CD), the committee said Russia...
17/01/2024 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox, in a final address to the Council of Europe’s ministerial body, reviewed his two-year term of office during what he described as “a most challenging and dangerous period for the Council of Europe and our citizens” and said his main challenge had been to, firstly, avert...
15/12/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) hearing on the situation of the children of Ukraine will take place in Paris on 15 December 2023. The meeting, which will be live-streamed, will be opened at 9.30 a.m. by PACE President Tiny Kox and PACE Vice-President Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, EC...
15/12/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“We politicians have a duty to take action, to support the children of Ukraine and their future, in host countries and within Ukraine. And we also have a duty to make every possible effort to help the return of deported and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children,” PACE President Tiny Kox said at...
10/12/2023 | News
PACE Vice-President Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, CE/AD) participated in the first meeting of the International Coalition of Countries for the Return of Ukrainian Children, representing PACE on behalf of President Tiny Kox. “As parliamentarians, we can employ many instruments to increase awareness on...
28/11/2023 | Standing Committee
“The second devastating war-time winter has started, a war that has already killed at least 10,000 civilians and injured 18,500 of them. And there are signs that attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure may escalate during the winter season,” PACE President Tiny Kox said today at the...
15/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), has condemned the Russian President for pardoning a man responsible for his participation in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an independent Russian journalist and human rights...
14/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Davor Stier (Croatia, EPP/CD), the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s rapporteur on the legal and human rights aspects of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, has sent the following message to the 'core group' of 38 countries willing to establish a special tribunal for the crime of...
24/10/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has again urged the international community to remain united and focused on bringing a just peace to Ukraine, fully restoring its territorial integrity, ensuring justice for victims, and holding Russia to account. Speaking at the second parliamentary summit of the...