24/01/2024 | President
“Almost 80 years ago, in March 1945, a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old girl named Anne Frank perished in the Bergen-Belsen camp. Without the diary she wrote between the ages of 13 and 15, Anne's fate would be indistinguishable from that of the one and a half million children who vanished under...
24/01/2024 | Elections
Members of PACE who have participated in election observation missions met this week on the margins of the winter plenary session to discuss ways of improving this aspect of the Assembly’s work – and supported the creation of a permanent informal network to share experience, expertise...
24/01/2024 | Session
The enlarged Assembly* today highlighted the role of the OECD and its initiatives to mitigate the negative trends in globalisation, in the new context resulting from shocks provoked by Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. The resolution adopted on the basis of the...
24/01/2024 | Session
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has resolved not to ratify the credentials of the Azerbaijani delegation, which were challenged on the opening day of the session, concluding that the country has “not fulfilled major commitments” stemming from its joining the Council of Europe...
23/01/2024 | Session
“We are witnessing a growing attempted erosion of rules-based international order, rising nationalism and violations of human rights,” said Nikos Christodoulides, President of Cyprus, in his address to the Parliamentary Assembly. In outlining many of these and other challenges, he stressed that...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Assembly today ratified the credentials of the German parliamentary delegation to PACE, which had been challenged on the opening day of the Assembly’s session on the procedural grounds of a lack of political balance within the delegation. The Assembly’s Rules Committee submitted its opinion...
23/01/2024 | Session
“As we navigate the complexities of our international and interconnected world, it is upon us to recognise that the values of democracy, the rule of law, and human rights are not just regional aspirations but universal imperatives”, said the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, in his...
23/01/2024 | Session
PACE today expressed concern at the intensification of a partial and biased treatment of the issue of migration and asylum in election campaigns, which legitimises political programmes aimed at hindering migrants' access to their rights in contravention of the Council of Europe’s standards and...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Gediminas Sagatys as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Lithuania. Mr Sagatys, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of office...
23/01/2024 | Session
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) today elected Stéphane Pisani as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Luxembourg. Mr Stéphane Pisani, having obtained an absolute majority of votes cast, is elected judge of the European Court of Human Rights for a term of...
23/01/2024 | Session
At a plenary session debate in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) “unequivocally and in the strongest possible terms condemned the barbaric attack conducted by Hamas and other militia groups against Israel on 7 October 2023”, acts which “cannot be justified on...
23/01/2024 | Session
No candidate having obtained an absolute majority of the votes cast in the first round of today’s election for the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, a second round of voting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 24 January 2024. The results obtained were as follows: Ms Megleva Kuneva...