Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy

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30/05/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE Rapporteur on the situation in the Middle East condemns the closure of Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt
30/05/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: committee calls on states to support political negotiations for the exchange and release of prisoners of war
26/05/2025 - President ‘Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is not just a geopolitical crisis, it's a moral one’ PACE President says in Chania
16/05/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE Middle East Rapporteur: Gaza’s pain must end
10/03/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE Middle East rapporteur expresses alarm at reports of mass killings in Syria

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The Committee prepared the Opinion of the Parliamentary Assembly, adopted unanimously on 15 March 2022, which led to the expulsion of the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe, as decided by the Committee of Ministers the following day. Since then, the Committee has continued to examine the unfolding Russian aggression against Ukraine, with an emphasis on its political consequences.