15/01/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
José María Beneyto, PACE rapporteur on political transition in Egypt, has expressed his deep regret that the first day of the constitutional referendum in the country was marked by violence which resulted in several deaths.
10/01/2014 | Monitoring
Michael Aastrup Jensen and Boriss Cilevičs, co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will undertake a fact-finding visit to the country from 13 to 15 January.
10/01/2014 | Secretary General of the Assembly
PACE Secretary General Wojciech Sawicki met his counterparts from the NATO and OSCE Parliamentary Assemblies, David Hobbs and Spencer Oliver, in Brussels this week to discuss co-operation between the three bodies.
01/01/2014 | President
On this first day of the New Year, I would like to wish happiness, prosperity, health and peace to the 820 million Europeans living in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
30/12/2013 | President
Following the second suicide bombing on a trollybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, the PACE President made the following statement:
29/12/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon strongly condemned the terrorist attack in the railway station in Volgograd today, which left some 15 people dead and many wounded.
20/12/2013 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Joseph Debono Grech, PACE rapporteurs for monitoring of Azerbaijan, have expressed their deep concern at the Nasimi District Court’s decision to place Anar Mammadli in pre-trial detention.
20/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marina Schuster, General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty, and Andres Herkel, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, condemned the death sentence passed on 26 November, but which only became known this week.
20/12/2013 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine Mailis Reps and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin said the authorities need to seek a broad consensus among all political forces on the geo-political direction and European integration.
20/12/2013 | Monitoring
Dora Bakoyannis and Andreas Gross co-rapporteurs for monitoring of the Russian Federation have expressed their satisfaction at the announcement of the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky following a pardon from Vladimir Putin.
19/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt, PACE rapporteur on “Keeping criminal and political responsibility separate”, denounced the bill adopted by the Romanian parliament on 10 December effectively decriminalizing corruption by public officials.
18/12/2013 | Session
An urgent debate on "The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine”* as well as a debate on “Refusing impunity for the killers of Sergei Magnitsky” are among highlights of PACE’s Winter Session.