24/02/2023 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Armenia on 17-19th of February to assess the situation on the border with Azerbaijan and at the entrance of the Lachin Corridor, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC...
24/02/2023 | Election observation
A delegation (*) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was in Podgorica on 23 and 24 February 2023 to assess the pre-electoral climate of the presidential election scheduled for 19 March 2023. The delegation, led by Joe O’Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), welcomed the fact that...
23/02/2023 | President
Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Committee of Ministers Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, President of the Parliamentary Assembly Tiny Kox, Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić, Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović as well as President of the Congress...
22/02/2023 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE Sub-Committee on culture, diversity and heritage met on 22 February 2023 in Olympia, Greece, on the premises of the International Olympic Academy. In her opening remarks Nina Kasimati, Chairperson of the Sub-Committee, underlined that “The Greek culture - in a wider context of its...
21/02/2023 | President
Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a working visit to Portugal on 22-23 February. In Lisbon, he will meet the Speaker of the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic, as well as the Chairperson and members of the Portuguese delegation to PACE...
21/02/2023 | Parliamentary Support
The Chamber of Councillors of Morocco and the PACE will organise a parliamentary meeting on "Strengthening women's economic empowerment: employment, entrepreneurship, training" on 22 February at the headquarters of the Parliament in Rabat, within the framework of the joint program “Support to the...
17/02/2023 | Election observation
A five-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Joseph O'Reilly (Ireland, EPP/CD), will make a pre-electoral visit to Montenegro on 23-24 February to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the presidential election on 19 March...
15/02/2023 | Monitoring
Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 17 to 20 February 2023. In Yerevan, Mr...
13/02/2023 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), have expressed profound concern over the continuing detention of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a well-known...
09/02/2023 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation, has issued a call for nominations for the 2023 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The Prize, created in 2013, aims to reward outstanding civil society action in...
31/01/2023 | Monitoring
In a declassified information note, the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee for Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/AD) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), confirmed their readiness to continue a constructive dialogue with the Turkish authorities following their visit to the country...
29/01/2023 | Session
An urgent debate on the legal and human rights aspects of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine, with the participation of Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head of the Center for Civil Liberties, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was one the highlights of the Winter plenary session of the...