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MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT TO TAKE THE FLOOR AT PACE WINTER SESSION
President of Moldova Igor Dodon will participate in the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that will take place in Strasbourg on January 27 through 31, and will answer questions.
According to the PACE website, the forum opening will also include the addresses of newly-elected General Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejcinovic Buric, President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili and Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs David Zalkaliani, who is now Chairing the CoE Committee of Ministers.
At its winter session, PACE will also elect its new President.
Debates on the agenda include a complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations, the functioning of democratic institutions in Poland, and reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
MPs will also discuss threats to media freedom and journalists’ security, a report on “Democracy hacked? How to respond?” and the protection of freedom of religion in the workplace.
The Assembly will hold two joint debates – one on migrant trafficking and missing refugee and migrant children, and another on organ transplant tourism and trafficking in human tissues and cells.
A report on minimum standards for electoral systems and a report on the elections in Belarus are also on the agenda.
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