POLITICS
CoE Commissioner for Human Rights to be elected at PACE winter session
Baku, January 19 (AZERTAC). The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will be held on January 23-27.
The agenda of the session includes election of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, demographic trends in Europe, promoting the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, right of everyone to take part in cultural life, situation in Belarus, functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, honouring of obligations and commitments by Serbia and protecting human rights and dignity by taking into account previously expressed wishes of patients.
Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation led by Samad Seyidov will participate in the session. The delegation includes MPs Ganira Pashayeva, Sabir Hajiyev, Rovshan Rzayev, Sevinj Fataliyeva, Rafael Huseynov and Fazil Mustafa.