PACE winter session kicks off in Strasbourg
Baku, January 23 (AZERTAC). The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has today started in Strasbourg.
The main issue of the session is election of the President, Vice-Presidents and committee members of the Assembly.
Vice president of PACE Movlud Cavusoglu will make a speech on progress report of the Bureau of the Assembly and the Standing Committee.
The first session features reports on parliamentary elections in Morocco and Russia and lecture by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
There has also been a request for an urgent debate on “The Russian Federation between two elections”.
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Right will be elected in the second day of the session.
The session will discuss the functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and guaranteeing the authority and effectiveness of the European Convention on Human Rights, report on the right to participate in cultural life and statement by Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO.
The third day of the session will feature discussions on the situation in Belarus, honouring of obligations and commitments by Serbia and protecting human rights and dignity by taking into account previously expressed wishes of patients, addresses by Grigol Vashadze, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Tarja Halonen, President of Finland, the Rt Hon. David Cameron MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The next day of the session will see possible urgent or current affairs debate, annual activity report 2011 by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, and statement by the Commissioner, Thomas Hammarberg, joint debate: advancing women’s rights worldwide, promoting the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, statement by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women and the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine.
The session will culminate on Friday with debates on enforced population transfer as a human rights violation and demographic trends in Europe: turning challenges into opportunities.
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