23/01/2012 President
Strasbourg, 23.01.2012 – Jean-Claude Mignon, elected today as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will lay a wreath at the Strasbourg war memorial in Place de la République at 5.30 pm on Tuesday 24 January.
The ceremony will be attended by the Director of the Private Office of the Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, representatives of Strasbourg City Council, the Conseil Général and the Regional Council, and the Chairpersons of the United Kingdom, Russian and German delegations to the PACE. For the new President, this wreath-laying ceremony not only marks the beginning of his term of office, but is also intended as a symbol of the Council of Europe’s deep attachment to Strasbourg and the role played by the PACE and the Council of Europe in promoting peace.