The agenda will include the Monitoring Committee's report on Bosnia and Herzegovina and its periodic review for Estonia, Greece, Hungary and Ireland, protection of regional and minority languages and the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine.
Three requests for debate under urgent procedure have already been lodged, two of them relating to the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and the role of the Council of Europe and another concerning rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia in Europe.
The list of the candidates to the post of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, includes Goran Klemenčič (Slovenia), Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ (France), Dunja Mijatović (Bosnia And Herzegovina)
Following the resignation of Pedro Agramunt as President of the PACE in early October, Stella Kyriakides was elected to this post.
She obtained a large majority over the other candidate, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), in the third round of voting. She will remain in office until the opening of the next ordinary session (Strasbourg, 22-26 January 2018).
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