PACE to Discuss Protests in Serbia

Protest in Belgrade on March 15 (BETAPHOTO/MILAN TIMOTIC)

The protests in Serbia and the situation in the Western Balkans are some of the topics of the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), to be held in Strasbourg from April 7 to 10.

The session will focus on the situation in Georgia, the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul and the war in Ukraine. These will be discussed as urgent debates, while Serbia and the Western Balkans are scheduled under the current affairs debate, the Council of Europe has announced.

MPs of the CoE member countries will also discuss the observing of the parliamentary elections in Kosovo, foreign intervention as a threat to democratic security in Europe, the interconnections between the Council of Europe and the European Political Community and the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

Also on the agenda are the legal aspects of the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights, the draft Convention of the Council of Europe on the protection of the environment through criminal law, strengthening of relations between the Council of Europe and Latin America, putting an end to collective expulsions of aliens, respect for the rule of law and the fight against corruption within the Council of Europe and the modification of various provisions of the Assembly’s Rules of Procedure.