Four Cypriot MPs in Strasbourg for PACE Session

08:02 - 30 September 2024

Current Affairs Reporter

Cypriot MPs Nicos Tornaritis (delegation leader), George Loucaides, Christiana Erotokritou and Kostis Efstathiou, members of the Cypriot delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will participate in the 4th part of the Assembly's session in Strasbourg, which will take place from 30 September to 4 October.

According to a House statement, the MPs went to Strasbourg on 29 September for the 4th Part of the 2024 PACE Session, which will deal with, among other issues, the humanitarian situation of women and children in Gaza, propaganda and freedom of expression in Europe, the investigation of the fate of missing migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, the situation in Iran and the need to protect Iranian human rights defenders in the Council of Europe member states, and the consequences of Julian Assange's detention on the struggle of other human rights defenders in Europe.

The Assembly will also award the annual Vaclav Havel Prize in the presence of the former Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara Murza, winner of the prize in 2022.

The Assembly will be addressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of North Macedonia Timco Mucunski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis, representing the Presidency of the CoE Committee of Ministers during the current semester, and the new Secretary General of the Organisation, Alain Berset.

(Source: CNA)

Four Cypriot MPs in Strasbourg for PACE Session

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