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Reacting to Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence  on 17 February , Lluís Maria de Puig, President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), called on all parties to keep their pledge to preserve peace and dialogue in all circumstances ...

A 27-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), will visit Armenia from 18 to 20 February 2008 to observe the presidential election together with observers from the OSCE ...

Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/C D ) and Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will be making a fact-finding visit to Baku from 4 to 8 February, to review this state's honouring of its commitments vis-à-vis ...

Europe may well have abolished slavery 200 years ago, but it has not yet been stamped out. Across Europe criminal gangs are getting rich through the trade in human beings – and many governments are not doing enough to stop ...

The recent crisis preceding Georgia's presidential election has overshadowed the "numerous positive steps" it has taken to fulfil its Council of Europe obligations, the organisation's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) said on 24 January.Debating Georgia's record following an address by Georgian President ...

Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia, on 24 January said that his government is committed to "building a stable and healthy state, one based not on personalities but on robust democratic institutions". In a speech to the Assembly, he said the ...

"I would like to express my great relief and satisfaction at the early liberation of Dimitri Dashkevich," on 24 January said Andrea Rigoni (Italy, ALDE), rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on ...

In a recommendation unanimously adopted on 24 January, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) called for the easing of international adoption rules. PACE recommended a revision of the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and ...

Reports that Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis declared his readiness to invite representatives from Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Strasbourg in order to better understand their position are completely untrue.The position of the Secretary General in support of ...

In a resolution adopted on 22 January , the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) deeply regretted that a mutually-acceptable solution to the status of Kosovo has not yet been found, but said alternative ways should be envisaged to continue ...