15/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), has condemned the Russian President for pardoning a man responsible for his participation in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an independent Russian journalist and human rights...
14/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Davor Stier (Croatia, EPP/CD), the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s rapporteur on the legal and human rights aspects of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, has sent the following message to the 'core group' of 38 countries willing to establish a special tribunal for the crime of...
14/11/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox, in an address to the Mexican Senate, has hailed Mexico as part of “Europe’s political neighbourhood” despite its geographical distance, and underlined its commitment to democratic values as the only Council of Europe observer state in Latin America for the last quarter of...
10/11/2023 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE rapporteur Paul Galles (Luxembourg, EPP/CD) on “Addressing the specific challenges faced by the Belarusians in exile” today urged that, amidst the tragedies happening around the planet, the fight for a democratic and free Belarus must remain high on the agenda. In this context, he welcomed...
06/11/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has reminded Council of Europe leaders of the pledges they made at the Reykjavik Summit a few months ago to uphold the principles of democracy – and expressed his conviction that these principles, if properly applied, can help to prevent war. Speaking at the opening...
03/11/2023 | Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation
PACE Rapporteur Birgir Thórarinsson (Iceland, EPP/CD) today urged member States to step up external action in support to Afghan refugees and to first reception countries as recommended in Resolution 2522 (2023). He recalled the Assembly’s unanimous decision that “deportations to Afghanistan are...
02/11/2023 | Monitoring
Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 6 to 8 November 2023. In Yerevan, Mr...
31/10/2023 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Dora Bakoyannis (Greece, EPP/CD), rapporteur for the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the application by Kosovo for membership of the Council of Europe, is to make a fact-finding visit to Kosovo from 1 to 3 November 2023. She is due to...
27/10/2023 | President
Tiny Kox, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), made the following statement to mark the Day of Political Prisoners (30 October): “30 October marks the Day of Political Prisoners. On this day in 1974, political prisoners in the USSR held a general hunger strike...
25/10/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Parliamentary Assembly’s General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, in a statement on the eve of Intersex Awareness Day (26 October 2023), has called for an end to surgical or hormonal procedures which cause serious physical harm to intersex persons. "These procedures are regularly...
24/10/2023 | President
PACE President Tiny Kox has again urged the international community to remain united and focused on bringing a just peace to Ukraine, fully restoring its territorial integrity, ensuring justice for victims, and holding Russia to account. Speaking at the second parliamentary summit of the...
20/10/2023 | Parliamentary support
A conference on inter-parliamentary dialogue to further promote the European integration of the Western Balkans was organised on Friday 20 October in Skopje by the PACE Inter-parliamentary Co-operation and Project Support Division, the PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, and the...