The meeting of the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will be held in Yerevan on May 31, 2013. APA reports quoting the PACE that the discussions will focus on Armenia’s priorities during its Chairmanship and other issues in the framework of the Assembly’s ongoing political dialogue with the Committee of Ministers.
The themes on the agenda include promoting alternatives to imprisonment and budgets and priorities of the Council of Europe for the biennium 2014-2015.
Furthermore, a current affairs debate on “The Nagorno-Karabach conflict, 25 years later: the Council of Europe’s possibilities to promote reconciliation between Armenia and Azerbaijan” has been requested by the PACE United European Left (UEL) Group. The holding of this debate – or any other debate requested within the requisite deadline – will only be confirmed at the opening of the meeting, during the adoption of the agenda.
Armenia assumed chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on May 16.
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