POLITICS
PACE spring session`s agenda made public
Baku, March 15 (AZERTAC). The agenda of spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has been made public.
The agenda will be confirmed on the first day of the session to be held on April 11-15. The Bureau of the Assembly and the Standing Committee will make reports during the session on their activities, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu who is chairing the Committee of Ministers, will address the session, answer oral and written questions of the parliamentarians.
During the event, judges to the European Court of Human Rights from France, Norway and Switzerland will be elected, high-ranking religious figures from Romania, Vatican, Turkey, Russia and Germany will address the session, honoring of commitments by Georgia, education against violence at school will be discussed on April 12.
Combating poverty, threat posed to democracy and human rights, challenge to the EU Eastern Partnership on economic development and governance in Eastern Europe, rural women in Europe, death penalty in the Council of Europe member states and observers of the Council of Europe, improvement of the mechanism on combating torture in Europe, water – a source of conflict will be discussed.
The session will also be addressed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland and President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
The European parliamentarians will also express their views on the latest developments in the Arab world.
The agenda of the spring session does not include any question related to Azerbaijan.