Belgrade: PACE President on official visit and Standing Committee
meeting
Strasbourg, 21.05.2007 – On the occasion of Serbia’s six-month
chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s executive body, the Committee of
Ministers, the President of the Council’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE),
René van der Linden, will make an official visit to the country on 23
May, followed by a meeting of the PACE Standing Committee on 24 May.
During his visit, the President is due to meet with President Boris
Tadic, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and Foreign Affairs Minister
Vuk Jeremic. Discussions are expected to focus on the country’s
chairmanship in the 47-member organisation, further integration of
Serbia, co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the issue of Kosovo.
The Assembly’s Standing Committee – which acts in the name of the
Assembly between sessions – will hold an exchange of views with Mr
Jeremic. The committee is also due to debate reports on monitoring of
commitments as regards social rights, respect for the principle of
gender equality in civil law, the capture of carbon dioxide as a means
of fighting climate change and missing persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan
and Georgia. Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio will
attend the meeting.
Other meetings organised in Belgrade on 23 May include the PACE Bureau,
which is due to to draw up the draft order of business for the coming
Assembly session from 25 to 29 June, as well as a Parliamentary Round
Table on "The role of parliament in promoting gender equality and
combating domestic violence" <; –
as part of the Council of Europe campaign against domestic violence – in
the framework of a PACE/EU joint initiative to support parliamentary
institutions in Serbia and in Montenegro. The Serbian version of the
photo exhibition "Break the silence on domestic violence" will be
inaugurated on 24 May at 1 pm in the Sava Centar.
Note to Editors
Press conferences
– Wednesday 23 May, 12.45 pm (Hyatt Hotel): press conference by PACE
President René van der Linden on his official visit
– Thursday 24 May, approx. 10.30 am (Sava Centar): press conference by
the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic and PACE President
Meetings
– Thursday 24 May, 9.00 am-1.30 pm: Standing Committee (Sava Centar,
Room 1A) OPEN TO THE PRESS.
– Wednesday 23 May, 9.00 am-1 pm: Round Table on "The role of parliament
in promoting gender equality and combating domestic violence" (National
Assembly) OPEN TO THE PRESS.
– Wednesday 23 May, 4 pm: PACE Bureau (National Assembly, Small Hall)
NOT OPEN TO THE PRESS.
Draft agenda
< genda/EAgenda070524.pdf> (PDF)
Working Documents
< istingSession_E.asp?selCriteres=3Dsession&IDSe ssion=3D218>
Contacts
Angus Macdonald, (in Belgrade on 23 and 24 May), mobile: +33 6 30 49 68
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Monika Lajhner, Council of Europe Office in Belgrade, mobile, +381 62
278 378
PACE Communication Unit : +33 3 88 41 31 93
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The Parliamentary Assembly brings together 318 members from the national
parliaments of the 47 member states.
President: René van der Linden (Netherlands, EPP/CD); Secretary
General of the Assembly: Mateo Sorinas.
Political Groups: SOC (Socialist Group); EPP/CD (Group of the European
People’s Party); ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe);
EDG (European Democratic Group); UEL (Group of the Unified European
Left).