PACE summer session to be held in Strasbourg today

  20 June 2016    Read: 2340
PACE summer session to be held in Strasbourg today
The summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will take place in Strasbourg on 20-24 June 2016, AzVision.az reports.

The head of permanent delegation of Azerbaijan to PACE, the chairman of the Milli Majlis international relations and inter-parliamentary relations standing committee, Samad Seyidov and a group of Azerbaijani MPs are in Strasbourg to attend the PACE summer session.

Azerbaijani MPs attending the PACE summer session are Sevinj Fataliyeva, Elkhan Suleymanov, Sahiba Gafarova, Ganira Pashayeva, Vusal Huseynov, Sabir Hajiyev and Muslum Mammadov.

Addresses by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas are among the highlights of the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) taking place in Strasbourg on 20-24 June 2016.

Topics for debate include the functioning of democratic institutions in Turkey, refugees at risk in Greece, violence against migrants, fighting the over-sexualisation of children, transparency and openness in European institutions, and promoting equality and putting an end to gender-based violence among women in the armed forces.

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