18/03/2020 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan by the PACE, Stefan Schennach and Sir Roger Gale, have welcomed the release of Mr Afgan Mukhtarli.
17/03/2020 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
“I am deeply shocked by the news that a young child died on Monday 16 March in a fire at the Reception and Identification Centre at Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos,” said Fabien Gouttefarde.
17/03/2020 | Monitoring
“The political agreement between ruling majority and opposition on the 2020 parliamentary elections in Georgia, offers a window of opportunity for Georgia’s democratic consolidation,” said the co-rapporteurs.
10/03/2020 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, Titus Corlăţean and Claude Kern, have welcomed the agreement between the Georgian ruling majority and opposition on the election system to be used for the 2020 parliamentary elections.
10/03/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has condemned the handing down in Belarus of a death sentence on Viktar Skrundzik for the murder of two elderly people in January 2019.
09/03/2020 | News
All meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly or its subsidiary bodies until the end of March have been postponed, as well as all non-essential travel by members carrying out Assembly business or by staff.
06/03/2020 | President
PACE President Rik Daems has called for the Parliamentary Assembly to achieve gender parity, launching the hash-tag #IWant5050 in a video clip to mark International Women's Rights Day (8 March 2020).
06/03/2020 | Standing Committee
Unanimously adopting a resolution based on the report by Egidijus Vareikis, the Assembly considered that “the beliefs and religious practices of migrants and refugees need to be taken into account as an essential factor in successful reception and integration policies”.
06/03/2020 | Standing Committee
“Urgent action is needed to prevent the situation getting even worse, and in order to find solutions the international community must come together,” said Tiny Kox, opening a current affairs debate today on ‘Recent developments at the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian borders: how to safeguard human rights?’.
06/03/2020 | Standing Committee
Following a current affairs debate in the Standing Committee, Rik Daems called on all member states to collectively address the issue of the humanitarian consequences of the war and crisis in Syria.
06/03/2020 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The committee proposed to amend the Assembly's Rules of Procedure to enable the implementation of a complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations.
04/03/2020 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Parliamentarians from Sweden, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria voted most often in plenary debates of the PACE during 2019, according to statistics made public today.