The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved the decision to amend its own regulations, having allowed President Pedro Agramunte to be removed from office.
Member of Ukraine's permanent parliamentary delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Leonid Yemets has been elected vice president of the Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted the declaration condemning Russia for its terrorist activities in Ukraine. Vice President of the PACE, Ukrainian MP, and one of the authors of the document Georgii Logvynskyi reported this on his Facebook page.
Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, MP from the People’s Front Party of Ukraine Georgiy Logvinskiy has been elected Chairman of the PACE Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism.
Ukrainian parliamentary delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during the current winter session in Strasbourg will raise the issue of liberation of Ukrainian political prisoners in Crimea and Russia, delegation member Oleksiy Honcharenko told Ukrinform news agency.
The delegation of the Verkhovna Rada to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will insist that sanctions against the Russian Federation and the Russian delegation to PACE stay in place. Oleksandr Honcharenko, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, told Ukrinform agency.
The PACE Monitoring Committee has approved a report on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine. A relevant draft resolution will be considered at a PACE session in Strasburg on January 23-27, according to the PACE official website.