22/04/2013 | Session
At the opening of its Spring plenary Session (22-26 April 2013), the Assembly today elected its Vice-Presidents with respect to Malta, Joseph Debono Grech ; Monaco, Jean-Charles Allavena ; and Romania, Ionuţ-Marian Stroe.
22/04/2013 | Session
The credentials of Ukrainian deputy Andriy Shevchenko, who was nominated to replace Sergiy Vlasenko on the Ukrainian parliamentary delegation, were challenged at the opening of PACE’s spring session today in Strasbourg.
22/04/2013 | Session
At the opening of the spring session of the PACE, the President, Jean-Claude Mignon, welcomed the unreserved support of the Czech Republic and of the Václav Havel Library and Charta 77 Foundation for the change in the name of the PACE Human Rights Prize to “Václav Havel Human Rights Prize”.
22/04/2013 | Session
The Assembly decided today to grant the right to two representatives of the political forces elected to the Kosovo* Assembly, one representing the majority and one the opposition, to participate in PACE committee meetings (with the exception of the Monitoring Committee and the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs), regardless of the questions raised on the agenda.
19/04/2013 | Session
For the first time, the live webstream of the Assembly's spring plenary session will be available in the Assembly's working languages of German, Italian and Russian, in addition to the official languages of English and French.
19/04/2013 | President
Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and Björn von Sydow (Sweden, SOC), Rapporteur on the situation in Kosovo*, have welcomed the final agreement to normalise relations between Belgrade and Priština, reached today in Brussels following more than six months and ten rounds of intense negotiations between Prime Ministers Dacic and Thaci.
18/04/2013 | President
“On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, I would like to pay tribute to the courageous men and women who took part in this historic act of resistance and remember the sacrifice of the victims,” PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon said today.
17/04/2013 | President
The Speaker of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin has accepted an invitation to address the Parliamentary Assembly during its October session. PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon made the announcement following meetings yesterday in Moscow with Mr Naryshkin and Russia’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Alexey Meshkov.
17/04/2013 | Monitoring
Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine), have welcomed the continuing efforts displayed by the Ukrainian authorities to reform the judiciary ...
16/04/2013 | President
PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon has strongly condemned the act of violence which caused three deaths and up to 100 casualties in the city of Boston: “I would like first of all to express the sympathy of the Parliamentary Assembly to the families and loved ones of the victims,..."
16/04/2013 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for PACE's monitoring of Georgia, Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Boriss Cilevics (Latvia, SOC), have welcomed the recently-adopted reforms of the justice system. Speaking following a four-day visit to the country (8-11 April 2013), they said: “These reforms will greatly improve the independence of the judiciary, which is something we have repeatedly called for..."
15/04/2013 | Monitoring
Jonathan Evans (United Kingdom, EDG) and Grigore Petrenco (Moldova, UEL), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Albania, are to make a fact-finding visit to Tirana from 17 to 19 April 2013.