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A proposal to draw up a list containing only two of the four candidates submitted by member governments for election to the post of Secretary General of the Council of Europe should be reviewed, according to the Organisation’s Parliamentary Assembly. ...

More than three hundred persons were arrested in Chisinau, Moldova, in connection with the post-electoral demonstrations in early April. A significant number of them were subjected to ill-treatment by the police, some of which was severe. This was the conclusion ...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 28 April reminded European governments of their "obligation and responsibility" to protect human rights defenders and their work "by providing an enabling environment" and, if necessary, "protection mechanisms to ensure ...

Addresses by Finnish President Tarja Halonen and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero are among highlights of the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg on 27-30 April 2009.  On the ...

“It is better to consult on sensitive issues in advance,” said Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD) and Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), commenting on the 18 ...

Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD) and Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 7-11 April. They are due ...

Russia has made "measurable progress" in several areas in fulfilling its obligations to the Council of Europe, but this is "less important than we had hoped for and expected after a nearly five-year period", especially on some key commitments, according ...

The Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) adopted on 20 March, under Step VI of its Compliance Enhancing Procedures, the following Public Statement on Azerbaijan: "The ...

Following the decision of the Azerbaijani authorities to organise a referendum on the amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided to send a delegation [1] ...

Ian Micallef, President a.i. of the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, on 16 March reiterated his call on Azerbaijani authorities to postpone the referendum on constitutional amendments, scheduled for 18 March. "The European Commission for ...