29/03/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier congratulated the people of Armenia and the authorities for completing a peaceful and democratic political transition which followed a major overhaul of the country’s governance system.
27/03/2019 | Election observation
A PACE delegation headed by Angela Smith will travel to Ukraine to observe the conduct of the 31 March presidential election alongside observers from the OSCE, the European Parliament and NATO.
27/03/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
80 participants from 22 countries discussed the role of diasporas in the development of civil society, and in particular the mechanisms to ensure the better involvement of diasporas and civil society in decision-making processes.
27/03/2019 | President
Speaking to the National Assembly as part of her official visit to Armenia, PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier praised the smooth functioning of democratic institutions in the country.
25/03/2019 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Tineke Strik will make a visit on 27-28 March to Zagreb and Cetingrad (Croatia) and to Velika Kladusa (Bosnia and Herzegovina), as part of the preparation of her report on pushback action by member State.
25/03/2019 | Monitoring
The Armenian authorities are acutely aware of the expectations of the population for change. It is therefore important that the reforms being formulated lead to concrete and tangible results, said the co-rapporteurs.
25/03/2019 | Parliamentary support
The role of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) in implementing judgments of the European Court of Human Rights was the focus of a capacity-building seminar on 21-22 March 2019 in Strasbourg – with parliamentary staff receiving advice on ways to check that new laws are “Convention-compliant...
22/03/2019 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier will make an official visit to Armenia from 26 to 28 March. She is due to meet, notably, the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Speaker of the National Assembly.
21/03/2019 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Council of Europe should step up political co-ordination with the EU while retaining its “primacy” in assessing both EU and non-EU states’ respect for common fundamental values, PACE’s Rules Committee said.
21/03/2019 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The Rules Committe proposed that PACE amend various provisions of its Rules, to accommodate the changes in parliamentary practice, drawing on discussions in the Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau on the role and mission of PACE.
20/03/2019 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Assembly's General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance, Gabriela Heinrich, has targeted European leaders who stir populist or nationalist sentiment in a statement to mark Anti-Racism Day.
19/03/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Sunna Aevarsdóttir, Sir Roger Gale and Stefan Schennach welcomed the release, following the Navruz presidential pardon, of more than 400 sentenced prisoners in Azerbaijan, including over 50 persons considered to be political prisoners.