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Speech by Philippe Kirsch, President of the International Criminal Court
President welcomes frank discussions with Russian authorities on PACE demands
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Full light on this matter is needed Dick Marty (Switzerland, ALDE), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteur on the human rights situation in the north Caucasus, expressed his profound indignation following the murder of prominent human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who represented, among others, the family of the victim of Colonel Budanov, the Russian officer sentenced to 10 years in prison in July 2003 for the murder of a young Chechen woman, and who was released last week. (More)
PACE President Lluís Maria de Puig has congratulated President Barack Obama on his inauguration, and invited him to address a plenary session of the Assembly in the near future. Mr de Puig warmly welcomed President Obama’s swift action – on his first day in office – to request the suspension of all military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. (More) The Assembly faces a challenge when the Kyoto agreements are renegotiated The Council of Europe has a unique opportunity to take up a global challenge, not its usual vocation of maintaining peace, but that of getting humankind to refocus on its environment, according to John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), speaking during a Paris meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly’s Environment Committee. “Throughout the 20th century, human beings have served the economy, but in the 21st, it is the economy’s turn to serve human beings and the environment,” he said. (More)
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The implementation of Resolution 1633 on the consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia, adopted in October 2008, and the humanitarian consequences of the conflict will be one of the highlights of PACE winter session, which will take place in Strasbourg from 26 to 30 January 2009. 
'I welcome the frank discussions with the Russian authorities and their willingness to engage in a constructive and open dialogue with the Assembly,” said PACE President, Lluís Maria de Puig, at the end of a visit of PACE’s Presidential Committee to Moscow on 18 and 19 January 2009. The Presidential Committee visited Moscow to discuss the implementation of Assembly Resolution 1633 (2008) on the “Consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia” with the highest Russian authorities.