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â€œThe Ramil Safarov caseâ€ to be discussed in 2012 autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)

20 September 2012 09:51 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports quoting to PACE Press Service. Debates on the honoring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation, the humanitarian crisis in Syria (for which a request for a debate under urgent procedure has been made) and the definition of political prisoner, as well as speeches by the Presidents of Albania and Moldova, are among the highlights of the 2012 autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), to be held in Strasbourg from 1 to 5 October.
Assembly members will also hold debates on the right to freedom of choice in education in Europe, human rights and foreign policy, and restoring social justice through a tax on financial transactions. A further item on the agenda is a joint debate on the themes of â€œFor more democratic electionsâ€ and â€œBest practices for promoting gender equality in political partiesâ€.
Bujar Nishani, President of Albania, Nicolae Timofti, President of the Republic of Moldova, and Sergey Naryshkin, Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, will address the parliamentarians.