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PACE winter session to be held Jan. 25

22 January 2010 [15:45] - TODAY.AZ
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold a winter session in Strasbourg on January 25-29.
The Azerbaijani delegation headed by Samad Seyidov, chief of Parliament`s department on international relations, will attend the session.

MPs Gultakin Hajibayli, Aydin Abbasov, Sabir Hajiyev, Rafael Huseynov, Aydin Mirzezade and Aynur Quliyeva are members of the delegation.

The agenda of the PACE session includes various issues, including presidential elections in Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East, functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, action against trafficking in human beings, lobbying in a democratic society, judicial corruption, Freedom of religion and other human rights for non-Muslim minorities in Turkey and for the Muslim minority in Thrace (Eastern Greece) and functioning of democratic institutions in Albania.

“Faked pandemics: a threat to health” will be one of the major themes of the next plenary session.

/AzerTac/
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