A formal status for the Assembly is needed   
Mevlüt Çavusoglu: Euronest Assembly
and PACE must be complementary

Evoquant la décision du Parlement européen de donner une dimension parlementaire au partenariat oriental - Assemblée parlementaire Euronest - le Président de l'APCE a souligné aujourd'hui l'importance que les deux structures agissent 'dans la complémentarité plutôt que dans le chevauchement'. (More)



Implementing the CoE Trafficking Convention
Parliamentarians united against trafficking
in human beings

The Assembly will organise a conference on 3 December in Paris, aimed at strengthening co-operation between international parliamentary assemblies involved in action against trafficking in human beings, announced Doris Stump (Switzerland, SOC) at a debate in Strasbourg on partnerships among parliaments, intergovernmental organisations and NGO’s active in this field. (More)

Statement by Doris Stump

'We share much more than we tend to think we do. And only if we focus on what unites us, only then will we be able to achieve, together, the true goals of mankind', said PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu during an audience with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, together with the members of PACE Bureau. The PACE President invited His Holiness to come to Strasbourg to address the Assembly.  (More)

Call to rescind the sentence
Suspension of Sakineh Ashtiani's sentence - a step forward but not enough 

José Mendes Bota (Portugal, EPP/CD), Chair of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Assembly,  recalled that the suspension of the stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to death for adultery, was a step forward but a far-from-adequate measure, which merely postponed execution of the sentence. (More)