PACE summer session kicks off in Strasbourg

Baku. 22 June. REPORT.AZ/ Next session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) starts work today in Strasbourg. 

Report informs referring to the PACE press service, the session will discuss the results of the observation of the parliamentary elections in Turkey on June 7, issue of participation of Russian delegation to PACE, the situation in Hungary, migration, media responsibility and ethics in a changing media environment, the situation missing people as a result of conflict in Ukraine.

June 23 is scheduled for debate on the functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan. A report on this subject will be presented by the co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee on Azerbaijan, Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski.

During the session on June 22, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Crnadak will make a speech, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will adress to PACE members on June 23. Also expected speeches of the President of Malta, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mladen Ivanic.

Session ends on June 26.