26/04/2022 | President
Reacting to yesterday’s conviction of Osman Kavala to an aggravated life sentence, Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), made the following statement: “I am deeply disappointed by the life sentence handed to Osman Kavala yesterday by an Istanbul...
25/04/2022 | President
At the opening of the PACE spring session in Strasbourg, President Tiny Kox urged members to help restore peace in Ukraine and the entire continent, and to assist Council of Europe member State Ukraine “to regain its national sovereignty and territorial integrity and rebuild its society, which is...
14/04/2022 | President
In a letter addressed to the President of the Bundestag, Tiny Kox expressed his condolences and paid tribute to the former President of the Parliamentary Assembly Leni Fischer, who held this position from 1996 to 1999. “Not only a committed defender of democracy, rule of law and human rights but...
07/04/2022 | President
“We must consider the best ways to support children affected by the war in Ukraine,” PACE President Tiny Kox said today, speaking on the occasion of the launch of the new Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child at a high-level conference in Rome co-organised by the Council of...
06/04/2022 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox met today, in Lviv, with Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk. The President is visiting Ukraine at the invitation of the Speaker, and is accompanied by the leaders of the Assembly’s five political groups and the Secretary General of the Assembly. In Lviv they...
06/04/2022 | President
At the invitation of Ukrainian Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Tiny Kox, together with the members of the Assembly’s Presidential Committee, travelled to Ukraine for the first official Council of Europe visit since the...
03/04/2022 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has expressed shock and horror at reports of civilian killings by Russian forces withdrawing from Bucha and other towns around Kyiv. “These horrible crimes need to be thoroughly investigated, and the perpetrators of any war crimes in this terrible war brought to justice...
01/04/2022 | President
“I am deeply worried by the worsening political situation in Tunisia,” said PACE President Tiny Kox in a statement today. “With the President’s decision to dissolve Parliament, which has been suspended since July 2021, the standoff between Tunisian institutions has now reached a new and dangerous...
23/03/2022 | President
“The consequences of the Russian Federation’s aggression on Ukraine will last for decades, be it in terms of reconstruction needs, or for the safe and sustainable return of refugees, to name but a few challenges […]. At the same time, we must envisage initiatives to support and engage with human...
16/03/2022 | President
Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has welcomed the decision of the Committee of Ministers to exclude the Russian Federation from the organisation as of today. The decision comes as an immediate reaction to the Opinion unanimously adopted by the...
15/03/2022 | President
The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Chair of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, Luigi Di Maio, the President of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, Tiny Kox, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić...
14/03/2022 | Session
Tiny Kox, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will give today a press conference at 2 p.m. today (Room 1, Palais de l'Europe) as part of the PACE plenary session which is discussing, today and tomorrow, the consequences of the Russian Federation’s...