13/01/2017 | President
Ending his visit, Mr Agramunt spoke in favour of the continuation of contact between parliamentarians of all Council of Europe member States. "The voice of MPs from all Europe's 47 countries must be heard in the Assembly", he said.
13/01/2017 | Monitoring
“Turkey is going through a crucial moment in its political history, reshaping its constitution while coping with the consequences of the on-going state of emergency,” said Ingebjørg Godskesen and Marianne Mikko.
10/01/2017 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach and Cezar Florin Preda, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 12 to 14 January.
10/01/2017 | President
Pedro Agramunt will make a working visit to Moscow on 12-13 January, during which he will hold bilateral meetings, in particular with the Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin.
09/01/2017 | President
Pedro Agramunt has condemned the terrorist attack on young Israeli cadets at the weekend and expressed his condolences to the Speaker of the Knesset, which holds observer status with the Assembly.
06/01/2017 | Monitoring
Ingebjørg Godskesen and Marianne Mikko, co-rapporteurs of the PACE, will be making a fact-finding visit to Turkey from 9 to 13 January, in the context of the post-monitoring dialogue with this country.
04/01/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have deplored the death sentence handed down on Kiryl Kazachok by a Belarusian court.
04/01/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Yves Cruchten, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have deplored the death sentence handed down on Kiryl Kazachok by a Belarusian court.
01/01/2017 | President
“Our societies are resilient enough to withstand these attacks: together we are stronger than terrorism”, said PACE President Pedro Agramunt, condemning the New Year's Day terrorist attack in Istanbul.
31/12/2016 | President
“While writing the last pages of 2016, we look back and see over the last year a long list of challenges to democracy, pluralism, human rights and the rule of law on our continent,”, PACE President Pedro Agramunt said.
20/12/2016 | President
In a letter adressed to the Speaker of the Bundestag, PACE President condemned the terrorist attack at the Christmas market in Berlin and expressed the Parliamentary Assembly’s full solidarity with Germany.
20/12/2016 | Parliamentary support
A seminar on “Combating intolerance and discrimination by countering hate speech: the role of parliaments” was held at the National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, in the framework of the activities of the PACE No Hate Parliamentary Alliance.