26/02/2016 | President
Pedro Agramunt has welcomed a final round of responses from the governments of Council of Europe member States to questions on their possible involvement in illegal CIA detentions in Europe or “rendition flights”.
26/02/2016 | Monitoring
Valentina Leskaj and Ögmundur Jónasson expect the authorities to implement credible reforms and welcomed the decision to change former PACE member Grigore Petrenco’s pre-trial detention into house arrest.
25/02/2016 | Election observation
“We welcome the agreement reached yesterday by the Macedonian Parliament to re-schedule the early elections to 5 June 2016,” said Lise Christoffersen and Valeriu Ghiletchi,co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue.
19/02/2016 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen and Valeriu Ghiletchi, co-rapporteurs for post-monitoring dialogue with “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, have urged political forces in Skopje to reach an agreement before early elections.
19/02/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
Maryvonne Blondin will make a fact-finding visit to Brussels on 23 February, in the context of the preparation of her report on “Guaranteeing equal rights and protecting women against violence in the armed forces”.
19/02/2016 | Monitoring
Valentina Leskaj and Ögmundur Jonásson, co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by the Republic of Moldova, will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 22-23 February.
18/02/2016 | President
Following yesterday’s terrorist attack in Ankara, PACE President Pedro Agramunt expressed the Parliamentary Assembly’s deepest sympathies to the people of Turkey and the Turkish authorities.
18/02/2016 | President
José Manuel García-Margallo yesterday met with PACE President Pedro Agramunt. The minister expressed his interest in some of the main projects that the new President intends to implement during his mandate.
17/02/2016 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Meritxell Mateu, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, deplore the new death sentence handed down by a Belarusian court.
17/02/2016 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Meritxell Mateu, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, deplore the new death sentence handed down by a Belarusian court.
17/02/2016 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Antisemitism and islamophobia may differ but their common roots are in hatred and intolerance and we must spare no effort in tackling both,” said Milena Santerini, speaking in a round table in Brussels today.
17/02/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“I took note with great interest of steps taken by WHO with a view to increasing the accessibility of affordable and innovative medicines,” said Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), at the end of a visit to WHO headquarters in Geneva on 15 February.