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  • PACE Spring Session Opens In Strasbourg At Palace Of Europe

    PACE SPRING SESSION OPENS IN STRASBOURG AT PALACE OF EUROPE

    ITAR-TASS
    April 14 2008
    Russia

    STRASBOURG, April 14 (Itar-Tass) - The spring session of the
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which opened
    here at the Palace of Europe on Monday, began its work by drawing up
    a work agenda. The session will last until April 18.

    The draft of the agenda includes a report on the Council's work in
    2007, which is to be delivered by CE Commissioner for Human Rights
    Thomas Hammarberg, assessment by PACE monitors of the elections in
    several countries, including Russia. The main items also include
    opposition of Moslem communities to extremism, accessibility to
    safe and legal abortions in Europe, growing number of suicides among
    young people.

    The section "on urgent debates" is expected to include the problem of
    the functioning of democratic institutions in Armenia and a discussion
    of the situation in the Middle East. It was moved at the very last
    moment to discuss the situation with human rights in China.

    "The Russian delegation will advise PACE to look into the facts, cited
    in former Chief Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for Former
    Yugoslavia Carla Del Ponte's book 'The Hunt, Me and War Criminals',"
    Chairman of the Duma Committee for International Affairs Konstantin
    Kosachyov told Itar-Tass.

    She reports in her book that at the end of 1990 militants of the
    so-called Kosovo Liberation Army had abducted more than three hundred
    inhabitants of Serbian enclaves in the territory, as well as women
    from Albania, Russia and other countries. Vitally important organs were
    later extracted from their bodies in an underground laboratory, located
    in the southern part of Albania, to be sold on the black market.

    Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
    Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, and French Foreign Minister
    Bernard Kouchner are expected to address the Strasbourg session as
    "guests of honour".

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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