24/01/2011 Session
On adopting its final agenda at the opening of the 2011 Winter Session (24-28 January), the Parliamentary Assembly decided to hold three urgent debates on Thursday 27 January. The subjects will be the recent violence against Christians in the Middle East, the situation in Belarus in the aftermath of the presidential election and the situation in Tunisia.
The Assembly has also decided to hold a current affairs debate on the functioning of democracy in Hungary. Other topics to be discussed are inhuman treatment of people and organ trafficking in Kosovo (this debate will begin on the morning of Tuesday 25 January and not in the afternoon as originally planned) and protection of journalists’ sources.
The debates on rural women in Europe and the need to assess progress in the implementation of the Bern Convention have been postponed. Highlights of the session also include speeches by the President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, the President of Serbia, Boris Tadic, the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, and the Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha.