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During the Congress session, Giovanni Di Stasi (Italy, SOC) was elected President of the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.
President of the Chamber of the Regions for the past two years, takes over from out-going President Herwig van Staa of Austria. He will hold the position for two years.
The three-day session includes debates on Russia, Georgia, Armenia and South East Europe. Other topics on the agenda include immigrant participation in city life, policing, drinking water quality, tourism and sports violence.
Guests at the session include Parliamentary Assembly President Peter Schieder, Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Schwimmer, Armenian Local Government Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, Norwegian Minister of Local and Regional Government Erna Solberg (on behalf of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers) and Peter Straub, President of the European Union Committee of the Regions.
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The other points of the session...
 Local elected representatives resolutely oppose liberalisation of the water market
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Walter Schwimmer on safeguarding diversity in Russia: ''A living heritage with a promising future'' (more...)
Giovanni Di Stasi: Local and regional elected represen-tatives keen to make their voice heard internationally (more...)
Grave concern over local democracy in Georgia (more...)
Local policing to cope with perceived insecurity (more...)
Peter Schieder: Congress is a ''laboratory of democracy'' at local and regional level (more...)
Composition of the bureaux
Chairmanship of the Standing Committee
Chairmanship of the Institutional Committee
Chairmanship of the Culture and Education Committee
Chairmanship of the Committee on Social Cohesion
Chairmanship of the Committee on Sustainable Development
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