03/10/2014 | President
Anne Brasseur today decisively condemned the violations of the ceasefire in the east of Ukraine. She expressed her indignation that despite the ceasefire and numerous calls to respect it, fighting continued.
03/10/2014 | Session
PACE has welcomed Albania’s “marked progress” in honouring its Council of Europe obligations and commitments, but regrets that many important reforms were delayed or negatively affected by the political crisis.
02/10/2014 | Elections
A delegation led by Christopher Chope will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Ukraine on 7-8 October, to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the early parliamentary elections on 26 October.
02/10/2014 | Session
The situation of religious and ethnic communities in the Middle East in general and in Iraq and Syria in particular has “evolved from alarming to desperate”, the Parliamentary Assembly said today.
02/10/2014 | Session
“The summer of 2014 will go down as a particularly dark time for our continent,” Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told parliamentarians today, addressing the Assembly.
02/10/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
For the second year in a row, the committee organised a breast cancer awareness raising event. The PACE President and dozens of its members showed their support to the event by wearing the pink ribbon.
02/10/2014 | Session
To ensure compliance by all member states with their obligations, the Assembly has asked to introduce a periodic overview of groups of member states, and an issue-based, cross-country monitoring.
02/10/2014 | Session
During a debate on the activities of the EBRD, PACE pointed out that, while providing assistance to its countries, the EBRD should also contribute to their “progress towards democracy and the rule of law”.
01/10/2014 | Session
A PACE delegation led by Doris Fiala will travel to Bulgaria from 3 to 6 October to observe the conduct of the early parliamentary elections, alongside observers from the ODIHR of the OSCE.
01/10/2014 | Session
The Secretary General of the OECD Angel Gurría today warned parliamentarians that unemployment had reached alarming levels, surpassing 50 per cent among the young in countries such as Greece and Spain.
01/10/2014 | Session
During a plenary debate, the Assembly applauded all political forces in Georgia for the handover of power which occurred 'peacefully and democratically' following the parliamentary and presidential elections.
01/10/2014 | Session
"There needs to be a permanent and durable ceasefire in Ukraine, together with the unconditional and complete withdrawal of foreign troops from the country", said Stefan Schennach, opening a current affairs debate.