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Senate delegation to attend PACE session in Strasbourg this week

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A parliamentary delegation made of Senators Alina Gorghiu, Titus Corlatean, Viorel-Riceard Badea and Ion Popa is attending this week the works of the first part of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) winter session in Strasbourg.

At the beginning of the session, Swiss MEP Liliane Maury Pasquier (Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group) has been re-elected for another one-year term as PACE President. At the opening of its winter plenary session on January 21, the Assembly also elected its Vice-Presidents, a release informs on Tuesday.

The session's agenda includes examining and adopting resolutions and recommendations formulated on the basis of the reports drawn up in the Assembly's expert committees, including Senator Viorel-Riceard Badea's report on the promotion of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities.

The Assembly plenary will debate the following reports: updating the guidelines to ensure fair referendums in Council of Europe member states; the Serghei Magnitzky case and fighting impunity by targeted sanctions; Sharia law and the European Convention on Human Rights: can states parties to the Convention be signatories to the Cairo Declaration?; media freedom, the prerequisite for democratic elections; Internet governance and human rights; discrimination in access to employment; the stage of the Assembly's monitoring procedure and the regular review of compliance with the obligations and commitments of the Council of Europe by Iceland and Italy.

The session's agenda also includes two urgent debates on escalating tensions in the proximity of the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait and threats to European security, as well as the worsening of the situation of opposition politicians in Turkey.

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The following officials will take the plenary floor: Finnish President Sauli Niinisto; Gianni Buquicchio - President of the Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission); Thorbjorn Jagland - Secretary General of the Council of Europe; Timo Soini - Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

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