PACE autumn session kicks off

  10 October 2016    Read: 1054
PACE autumn session kicks off
Autumn plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) kicked off on October 10, AzVision.az reports citing the Assembly` website.
French President François Hollande, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu, and Estonian Foreign Minister Jürgen Ligi (who will present the activities of the Committee of Ministers, which he currently chairs) will address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) at its autumn plenary session in Strasbourg (10-14 October).

A current affairs debate has been requested on the situation in Turkey in the light of the attempted coup d’Etat. Debates are also foreseen on the political consequences of the Ukraine conflict and on legal remedies for human rights violations in areas not under Ukrainian control.

The parliamentarians will also debate reports on children’s rights related to surrogacy, on lessons from the “Panama Papers” to ensure fiscal and social justice, as well as on co-operation with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

On the opening day of the session, the Assembly will decide the winner of the 2016 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize.

The delegation of the Azerbaijani parliament to PACE led by Samad Seyidov, the chairman of the parliamentary Committee on international and interparliamentary relations, left for Strasbourg on October 9 to attend the session.

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