30/09/2024 | Session
“Dear Vladimir, let me once again express my utmost relief to see you free, and all the more determined to continue with your fight for the free and democratic Russia which we all long for, and which poses no threat to its neighbours nor to its own citizens”, PACE President said today at the...
26/09/2024 | President
On the eve of an appearance before PACE in Strasbourg next week, recently released Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has described his experience of two-and-a-half years of detention in Russia during a 20-minute conversation with PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos. In the first...
05/09/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has welcomed the opening for signature of the new Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, which he hailed as “a major step forward” and a springboard for ongoing discussion about the...
04/09/2024 | President
In a statement, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has reacted to recent missile strikes in Ukraine, and again urged the speedy creation of a special tribunal to try Russia’s political and military leadership for the crime of aggression. “In recent days and nights, indiscriminate Russian...
26/08/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has reacted to the announcement by the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan that certain members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will be considered as personae non gratae in the country. “This is a more than regrettable signal which...
02/08/2024 | President
After recalling the extermination on 2 August 1944 of some 4,300 Roma and Sinti in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps, as well as the horrific experiments carried out on humans (in particular Roma children), PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos underlined the importance of memory as “the...
01/08/2024 | President
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President Theodoros Rousopoulos today made the following statement: “It is with great joy that I welcome, on behalf of the Assembly, the liberation of our friend Vladimir Kara-Murza as well as the other political prisoners who have reached safety...
09/07/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos opened on 8 July the second edition of the Liverpool Summer School on the Law of the Council of Europe. The theme chosen for this second edition is: “Council of Europe at 75: Protecting human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the rapidly changing world...
08/07/2024 | President
“Today I'm both saddened and angry at the barbaric destruction wrought this morning by Russian rockets in Ukraine,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos. “The number of victims has yet to be established, as many are still trapped under the debris, children and adults alike, including medical...
04/07/2024 | President
PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos today underlined the urgent need to address issues such as inequality, housing, low income and social exclusion, “which pose direct threats to the stability of our democratic order”, serving as roots for the rise of nationalist and extremist sentiments...
03/07/2024 | President
I very much regret the refusal of the authorities of Azerbaijan to co-operate with the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), which led to unprecedented cancelling of the scheduled CPT’s visit. I was also concerned with...
01/07/2024 | President
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly Theodoros Rousopoulos and the First Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniyenko met today in the framework of the 3rd meeting of the High-level Dialogue on “Good democratic governance in Ukraine: achievements, challenges and the way forward...