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Call for a renewed focus on the humanitarian situation
PACE autumn session: consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia
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A great void in the hearts of all Europeans
This is a great day for the future of Serbia Arrest of Radovan Karadzic: 'Now justice can at last be done' Lluís Maria de Puig welcomed the arrest of the former political leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic. 'Now justice can at last be done. The memory of thousands of victims of the Srebrenica massacre, the siege of Sarajevo and many other atrocities can at last be honoured. I would like to pay sincere tribute to all these victims', he said. (More)
'The talks which have opened today represent the best opportunity in many years to end the division of Cyprus,” said Joachim Hörster (Germany, EPP/CD), the rapporteur of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on the Cyprus question. “The opportunity must not be wasted.”, he added. (More) Call for an additional protocol to the Convention 'Protecting the environment is a question of human rights, not of principles' 'Protecting the environment, the right to live in a healthy environment, is not just a matter of applying principles by which we all set great store. It concerns the protection of a fundamental right for the citizens of our continent,' said PACE President in Madrid when he gave the opening address of the colloquy being held by the Environment Committee on the theme 'The role of parliaments in the management of water resources.' (More)
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Both Georgia and Russia could have done more to prevent the war between them, according to the head of a PACE delegation visiting the two countries ahead of an urgent debate on the consequences of the war this week in Strasbourg. Speaking at a press conference in Tbilisi at the end of the second part of the visit (24-25 September), Luc Van den Brande (Belgium, EPP/CD) said that it was important to understand events leading up to the outbreak of war: “This conflict didn’t start on 7 August,” he pointed out. 
PACE President Lluis Maria de Puig expressed his deepest sadness and sorrow at the death of Lord Russell-Johnston, a former President of the Parliamentary Assembly from 1999 to 2002 and a member for twenty-three years, and extended his condolences to his family.