22/07/2023 | President
“12 years ago, 77 innocent people were massacred in Norway by a far-right terrorist in what was the deadliest attack in Norway’s history since the end of the Second World War. The majority of victims were teenagers, participating in a socialist youth camp on the island of Utøya. I wish the...
07/07/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox, in an address to the Cyprus House of Representatives yesterday, stressed the vital need to find a solution for Cyprus after 50 years of division – and called for a “bi-communal and bi-zonal federation with political equality on the island”, in line with United Nations...
27/06/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has hailed the creation of an international Register of Damage for Ukraine as “a first practical step” towards obtaining reparation for the damage caused to the Ukrainian people by Russia’s war of aggression – and urged that it record also loss or damage caused by private...
19/06/2023 | Session
“This week’s debate on the budget and priorities of the Council of Europe for 2024-2027 takes on its full meaning. We need to discuss how the decisions of the Summit can best be implemented in the years to come, including by the Assembly. I call on all Member States, after the adoption of the...
06/06/2023 | President
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and Council of Europe’s President of the Committee of Ministers, Edgars Rinkēvičs, 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 made the...
17/05/2023 | President
“Restoring, strengthening and perhaps re-inventing European democratic security and rules-based multilateralism against aggressive unilateralism has become an existential challenge and a main reason to meet here today," said Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...
24/04/2023 | President
PACE leaders have declared their strong solidarity with Russian and Belarusian political prisoners at a special event at the opening of the Assembly’s spring plenary session in Strasbourg. PACE President Tiny Kox, joined by the leaders of the Assembly’s political groups, paid tribute to Russian...
24/04/2023 | Session
"Although the 4th Summit will be by and large an intergovernmental event, a parliamentary dimension will also be ensured. Our Standing Committee will hold an extraordinary meeting on 15 May in Reykjavik and an Assembly delegation will attend the Summit itself", PACE President Tiny Kox today said...
21/04/2023 | President
Following the sentencing of Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison, the PACE President and leaders of the PACE political groups will express their solidarity with him, as well as other political prisoners, on Monday 24 April 2023 at 12.30 p.m. in the area in front of...
14/04/2023 | President
The Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Committee of Ministers Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly Tiny Kox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić have issued the following statement: “We...
31/03/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has pledged that the Parliamentary Assembly will do everything in its power to ensure accountability for the crimes committed during Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, declaring: “Justice will be done and delivered, whatever it takes.” Speaking by teleconference at the...
23/03/2023 | President
Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), paid a working visit to France on 22 March 2023, during which he discussed the current challenges linked to the war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, and its consequences, as well as...