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"The unilateral recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by the Russian Federation violates the territorial integrity of a fellow Council of Europe member state. It jeopardises prospects for a negotiated settlement of the dispute about the future ...

On 26 August 2008, the Council of Europe in co-operation with “Yeni Nesil” Union of Journalists will hold a conference on “The media and elections: The democratic responsibility of the media” in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is organised within the framework ...

"It is unthinkable that, in the 21st century, a member State of the Council of Europe invades the territory of another member State. The occupation by Russia of a part of Georgia, as well as the human rights violations in ...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, will start on Friday 22 August a fact-finding visit in the areas affected by the South Ossetia conflict. “The aim of the visit is to assess the human rights situation ...

Luc Van den Brande (Belgium, EPP/CD), one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the monitoring of the obligations and commitments by Russia, will travel to Moscow on 20 August to collect information ...

‘Mr Kozulin, once the most prominent political prisoner in Belarus, is now a free man once more. I welcome his unconditional liberation and I express my sympathy for the suffering he has undergone during these years’ said Parliamentary Assembly of ...

“It is good news that Alexander Kazulin, one of the opposition leaders in Belarus, has been released from prison at last”, said Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. “However, it should not have been ...

Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, ALDE) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC), PACE Rapporteurs on the monitoring of the obligations and commitments by Georgia, will travel to Tbilisi next week to collect information on the ground and discuss the situation at the highest ...

Carl Bildt, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, and Terry Davis, Secretary General, üent to in Georgia on Monday. On 12 August they had a tete-a-tete meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. ...

The President of the PACE Lluis Maria de Puig greeted that fact that Georgia and Russia, both being the members of the Organization, agreed to cease fire. He noted that the Assembly awaits the final completing of combat and the ...