PACE to elect new president, consider issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan at its winter session

At its winter session in Strasbourg (27-31 January 2020), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will elect its new president.

The presidents of Georgia and the Republic of Moldova as well as the Georgian foreign minister and president of the Committee of Ministers and the newly-elected secretary general of the Council of Europe will address PACE and answer questions, the PACE website reported.

Debates on the agenda include a complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member state of its statutory obligations, the functioning of democratic institutions in Poland, and reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

MPs wi...