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    Human rights in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and referendum in Belarus on
    agenda of Venice Commission Plenary Session

    Strasbourg, 06.10.2004 - Proposals for new human rights review mechanisms
    for Kosovo, the constitutional situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
    forthcoming referendum in Belarus will be discussed at the 60th plenary
    session of the Venice Commission (8 and 9 October, Scuola Grande di San
    Giovanni Evangelista in Venice).

    The Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional
    issues, will also debate:

    * Armenia's law on public meetings,
    * the Georgian draft law on restitution of housing and property to the
    victims of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict,
    * Ukrainian draft laws on the protection of indigenous people and on the
    public prosecutor.

    The Commission will look at two projects to amend the Armenian constitution.
    Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly Tigran Torosyan will attend the
    debate.
    Lord Ashdown, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, will
    present the situation on the country.

    Also attending the meeting are Deputy Special Representative of the UN
    Secretary General for Police and Justice Jean-Christian Cady and Chief Legal
    Adviser of KFOR Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Toussaint; Chief Justice of
    England and Wales the Rt. Hon. Lord Woolf; President of the Constitutional
    Court of the Republic of Korea Young-chul Yun and Deputy Chief Justice of
    the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adel Omar Sherif. Ambassadors
    Pietro Lonardo (Italy) and Johannes C. Landman (the Netherlands), Permanent
    Representatives to the Council of Europe, will also be present.


    All the adopted opinions are public and will be available on the Venice
    Commission's website shortly after the session: www.venice.coe.int


    Contacts in Venice during the session:
    Gianni Buquicchio, mobile +39 338 347 85 76
    Tatyana Mychelova, mobile + 33 676 72 0402


    PRESS RELEASE
    Council of Europe Spokesperson and Press Division
    Ref: 477a04
    Tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 25 60
    Fax:+33 (0)3 88 41 39 11
    [email protected]
    internet: www.coe.int/press


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    A political organisation set up in 1949, the Council of Europe works to
    promote democracy and human rights continent-wide. It also develops common
    responses to social, cultural and legal challenges in its 46 member states.
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