11/07/2022 | President
Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and the 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...
11/07/2022 | President
Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), paid an official visit to Germany on 6-8 July 2022, where he held in-depth discussions on the urgent need to strengthen the role of the Council of Europe as the continent’s reference organisation for promoting...
07/07/2022 | Monitoring
Ending a visit to Bucharest (4 to 5 July 2022), the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the periodic monitoring of Romania’s obligations to the Council of Europe, Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) and Krista Baumane (Latvia, ALDE), have welcomed the...
04/07/2022 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Tirana from 29 June to 1 July 2022, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Albania, Joseph O’Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD) and Asim Mollazada (Azerbaijan, EC/DA), welcomed the marked...
29/06/2022 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A cross-party delegation of ten members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE),* ending a visit to Kyiv on Ukraine’s Constitution Day (28 June 2022), has expressed shock at the level of evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity it saw, denounced the war in the...
28/06/2022 | President
"I am horrified by the recent wave of Russian air and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in Ukraine, which has already resulted in dozens of innocent people killed and hundreds injured," said Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
25/06/2022 | President
“I am shocked by last night’s terrible attack in Oslo – which seems to have specifically targeted the LGBTI community,” said the PACE President Tiny Kox. “My thoughts are with the families of the victims, and all those affected, as well as those who were looking forward to a peaceful Pride Parade...
24/06/2022 | Session
The Assembly’s partnership for democracy with the Parliament of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan has produced “mixed results” in the eight years since it was granted, PACE has said. The Assembly resolved to continue the partnership, in order to support the country’s path to democracy, but warned that...
24/06/2022 | Session
Concerned about the increase in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in Europe and across the world, PACE today called on member States to give high priority to the prevention of the resurgence of contagious diseases and “to develop comprehensive, forward-looking, pro-active and human rights...
24/06/2022 | Bureau
PACE has set up a special committee to contribute to the preparation of a Fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe. The new ad hoc committee brings together the Assembly’s President and the heads of its political groups and committees, the rapporteur of a recent...
23/06/2022 | Session
PACE has said that, based on the evidence made available to its rapporteur by Ukrainian and Dutch authorities, it considers “as the most convincing scenario by far” that flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 by a Buk missile made available to military units controlled by the Russian...
23/06/2022 | Session
In the framework of its regular periodic reviews of the honouring of membership obligations by Council of Europe member States, the Assembly today debated a report on Malta. The unanimously adopted resolution, based on the report prepared by the Assembly’s co-rapporteurs Bertrand Fournier (France...