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PACE elects its committee Chairpersons

Strasbourg, 22.01.2013 – The committees of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today elected or re-elected their Chairpersons:

Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy
Pietro Marcenaro (Italy, SOC), re-elected

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EDG), re-elected

Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), re-elected

Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons
Giacomo Santini (Italy, EPP/CD), re-elected

Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media
Piotr Wach (Poland, EPP/CD), elected

Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination
Tina Acketoft (Sweden, ALDE), re-elected

Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Nataša Vučković (Serbia, SOC), elected

Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee)
Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), re-elected