21/03/2014 President
A delegation of the leading members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by its President Anne Brasseur, is to visit Kyiv, Donetsk and Lviv during a three-day visit to Ukraine from 22-24 March 2014.
The nine-member delegation(*) – made up of the President of the Assembly, the heads of its five political groups and its Secretary General, as well as the two-co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine – will assess the situation in Ukraine ahead of an urgent debate likely to take place at PACE’s spring plenary session (7-11 April 2014).
In Kyiv on Saturday 22 March, the delegation is due to meet the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and acting President, the Prime Minister, the Internal Affairs Minister and Foreign Minister, as well as the leaders of Ukraine’s main political parties and the chairman of the Meilis of the Crimean Tatar People.
In Donetsk on Sunday 23 and in Lviv on Monday 24, the delegation is due to meet the Governors of each oblast, the mayors of each city, and members of the regional councils, as well as representatives of Russian and Ukrainian cultural organisations (to be confirmed).
Contact: Angus Macdonald, PACE Communication Division, tel:+33(0)6 30 49 68 20.
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(*) Anne Brasseur (President of the Parliamentary Assembly), Andreas Gross (Chairperson of the Socialist Group), Pedro Agramunt (Chairperson of the Group of the European People’s Party), Jordi Xucla (Chairperson of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), Alexey Pushkov (Chairperson of the European Democrat Group), Tiny Kox (Chairperson of the Group of the United European Left), Wojciech Sawicki (Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly), Mailis Reps (Co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee for Ukraine), Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee for Ukraine).