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| 20/11/2009 |
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News | Election observation
PACE delegation makes pre-electoral visit to Ukraine
An eight-member, cross-party delegation from PACE, led by Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, ALDE), will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Kyiv on 24-26 November, ahead of the presidential election in Ukraine on 17 January 2010, to assess the electoral framework and campaign so...
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| 20/11/2009 |
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News | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: PACE rapporteur to visit Italy
Christos Pourgourides (Cyprus, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of PACE, will make a fact-finding visit to Rome on 23 and 24 November as part of the preparation of his report on the implementation of judgments of the European Court...
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| 20/11/2009 |
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News | Standing Committee
Effectiveness of the Court raised during discussions in Bern
In their addresses at the opening of PACE Standing Committee today in Bern, Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi, President of the National Council of the Swiss Confederation and Micheline Calmy-Rey, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Foreign Affairs Department, recalled the...
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| 20/11/2009 |
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News | Violence against Women
'Impunity for violence against women must end'
Irrespective of her origin or background, any victim of gender-based violence residing in Europe must be able to receive protection and rehabilitation, said PACE President Lluís Maria de Puig, in a statement issued ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence...
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| 20/11/2009 |
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News | President
Lluís Maria de Puig congratulates new EU President and Foreign Affairs Chief
PACE President Lluís Maria de Puig has written to the new President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and the new EU Foreign Affairs High Representative Baroness Ashton to congratulate them on their election. In his letters, he stressed the “common aim” of the two...
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| 19/11/2009 |
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News | Monitoring
Appointment of a new co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan
PACE Monitoring Committee yesterday appointed Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC) as new co-rapporteur for Azerbaijan. He is replacing Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC)....
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| 19/11/2009 |
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News | President
PACE President reacts to Russian Constitutional Court decision on death penalty
“This is good news – and another step in the right direction,” said PACE President Lluís Maria de Puig, reacting to today’s decision by Russia’s Constitutional Court concerning the death penalty. “However Russia promised, when it joined the Council of Europe thirteen years...
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| 19/11/2009 |
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News | President
Official visit by PACE President to Hungary
PACE President, Lluís Maria de Puig, will be making an official visit to Hungary from 23 to 25 November. He is scheduled to hold meetings with President László Sólyom, the Speaker of the National Assembly Béla Katona, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, the State Secretary in...
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| 19/11/2009 |
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News | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Former PACE rapporteur calls for clarity over death in prison of Russian lawyer
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Germany ALDE), the former Rapporteur on "politically-motivated abuses of the criminal justice system in Council of Europe member states", today expressed her dismay at the death in a remand prison in Moscow of the lawyer Sergey Magnitsky,...
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| 18/11/2009 |
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News | Monitoring
PACE rapporteurs call for immediate release of Georgian teenagers held in Tskhinvali
The two co-rapporteurs of PACE for the war between Georgia and Russia today called on the de facto authorities in Tskhinvali to release without delay the four Georgian teenagers arrested on 4 November 2009. “The arrest and prolonged detention of these young people will...
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| 17/11/2009 |
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News | Migration, Refugees and Population
EU plan emphasises migration processes over people, head of PACE delegation warns
Plans for migration and asylum in the European Union’s draft five-year plan for cross-border co-operation are too focused on the processes of migration and not enough on the people, the head of a delegation from PACE told a gathering of parliamentarians in Brussels today. ...
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| 17/11/2009 |
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News | Political Affairs
Dialogue essential for restarting the Middle East peace process
“Over the last two months, the process of negotiation in the Middle East has weakened despite the Obama administration’s recent efforts to draw the Israeli and Palestinian sides together,” Piero Fassino (Italy, SOC), PACE rapporteur on the situation in the Middle East,...
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| 17/11/2009 |
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News | Political Affairs
PACE hearing: which solutions for the forceful comeback of piracy?
“Over the past few years we have been witnessing a strong resurgence of piracy at sea, and European states are comparatively powerless to cope with the scale of this phenomenon,” Birgen Keles (Turkey, SOC) emphasised at a hearing held today in Brussels by the PACE Political...
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| 16/11/2009 |
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News | Environment, Agriculture, Local and Regional Affairs
Governments encouraged to sign new protocol boosting citizens’ local involvement
The head of PACE’s Environment Committee, speaking on behalf of PACE President Lluis Maria de Puig, today encouraged Council of Europe governments to sign the new additional protocol to the European Charter of Local Self-Government, giving citizens the right to participate...
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| 16/11/2009 |
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News | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE Legal Affairs Committee demands legal recognition of same-sex couples
While recalling that the eradication of homophobia and transphobia requires the member states political resolve, the PACE Legal Affairs Committee meeting this morning in Paris adopted a draft resolution urging European governments to guarantee “legal recognition of same-sex...
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| 13/11/2009 |
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News | Migration, Refugees and Population
Migrants can help Europe to recover from the economic crisis, PACE forum told
Migration could well present a solution for Europe’s recovery from the economic crisis, according to Mevlüt Cavusoglu (Turkey EDG), Chair of PACE’s Sub-Committee on Migration, speaking at the end of a two-day forum, “Remain, migrate or return: what to do in a global recession?”...
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| 12/11/2009 |
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News | Monitoring
Conviction of bloggers in Azerbaijan ‘a blow to freedom of expression’, say PACE rapporteurs
Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD), co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, and Christoph Strässer (Germany, SOC), rapporteur on the follow-up to the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan by PACE, today expressed their dismay at the conviction of two satirical...
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| 12/11/2009 |
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News | President
PACE President in favour of greater co-operation with Japan
At the end of a five-day official visit to Japan, PACE President Lluís Maria de Puig today said that co-operation between Japan and the Council of Europe should be strengthened, at both parliamentary and intergovernmental level, as well as in the field of legal co-operation. ...
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| 10/11/2009 |
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News | Migration, Refugees and Population
The effects of the economic crisis on migrants at the heart of a PACE forum in Antalya
The members of PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population will be taking part on 12 November in a forum on “Remain, migrate or return: what to do in a global recession?”, organised by the Sub-Committee on Migration and the Turkish parliament. The parliamentarians...
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| 10/11/2009 |
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News | Standing Committee
PACE Standing Committee to meet in Bern
Switzerland’s priorities for its Chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers will feature at a meeting of PACE Standing Committee in Bern, Switzerland, on Friday 20 November 2009. A series of reports on migration are also due to be debated. The President...
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