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PRESS RELEASE
Communication Division
PACE 016 (2024)
PACE Standing Committee to debate Alexei Navalny’s death at its 7 March meeting in Paris
Following opening addresses by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, and the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, participants will hold (*) two current affairs debates. The first will focus on “The death of Alexei Navalny”, with the intervention of Jacques Maire, former PACE rapporteur on the arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny and subsequently on Mr Navalny’s poisoning. The second current affairs debate will focus on “Two years of war of aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine”.
The parliamentarians will then debate reports on “The right to freedom of information: ensuring access to historical documents”, and “Precarious and irregular work situations of migrant seasonal and domestic workers”.
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 (*) The Standing Committee will adopt its final agenda at the opening of the meeting.
The Standing Committee, which acts on the Assembly’s behalf between plenary sessions, is made up of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Assembly, the chairpersons of political groups, the chairpersons of national delegations and the committee chairpersons, totalling some 60 parliamentarians from the Council of Europe’s 46 member States.
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The Assembly brings together 306 members from the national parliaments of the 46 member states. President: Theodoros Rousopoulos (Greece, EPP/CD) – Secretary General of the Assembly: Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis. Political groups: SOC (Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group); EPP/CD (Group of the European People’s Party); EC/DA (European Conservatives Group & Democratic Alliance); ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe); UEL (Group of the Unified European Left).
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