06/04/2016 | President
Pedro Agramunt called for a comprehensive pan-European approach to meeting the challenges of the refugee crisis, and the threat of terrorism and radicalisation, as well as finding solutions to “frozen conflicts”.
04/04/2016 | Monitoring
Stefan Schennach, co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan by the PACE, is to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 6 to 8 April 2016.
03/04/2016 | President
PACE President Pedro Agramunt has called on both sides to swiftly resume negotiations towards a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
01/04/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
PACE rapporteurs Marieluise Beck and Kristýna Zelienková will make a joint fact-finding visit to Kyiv, Mariupol and Dnipropetrovsk from 4 to 7 April, in the context of the preparation of their respective reports.
01/04/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteurs Marieluise Beck and Kristýna Zelienková will make a joint fact-finding visit to Kyiv, Mariupol and Dnipropetrovsk from 4 to 7 April, in the context of the preparation of their respective reports.
01/04/2016 | Election observation
A delegation comprising five members and headed by Volodymyr Ariev, will make a pre-electoral visit to Serbia from 4 to 6 April to assess the electoral campaign and the political climate prior to the early parliamentary elections.
31/03/2016 | President
Pedro Agramunt will make a visit to Hungary from 3 to 5 April, during which he will meet, in particular, the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade.
28/03/2016 | President
“The release of the human rights defender Intigam Aliyev is an important step for the judiciary in Azerbaijan, which needs to be strengthened and needs to act with genuine independence,” said Pedro Agramunt.
22/03/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Europe has so far failed to find a proper, sustainable response to the refugee and migration crisis in the Western Balkans. Mutual trust and confidence have been undermined by unilateral actions, said the committee, meeting in Tbilisi.
22/03/2016 | President
“I am deeply shocked by the attacks in Brussels that killed so many people and left many others injured,” said Pedro Agramunt. “These attacks, at the heart of Europe, are a direct attack on our European values and freedoms”.
22/03/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
Those fleeing conflict in Syria are entitled to international protection which is best provided in countries close to home. These neighbouring countries cannot provide that protection without extensive external support.
22/03/2016 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
The committee adopted a text on the humanitarian concerns as regards the captured people in Ukraine, in which it asked the Russian Federation to release Ms Savchenko and other illegally detained Ukrainian prisoners.