Parliamentary Assembly
		Summer session, Strasbourg 21-25 June 2004
REFERENCE SITE Parliamentary Assembly AGENDA  Order of business MULTIMEDIA Videos records available online PHOTOS The session in pictures Robert Kocharian Kjell Magne Bondevik INTERVIEWS Helena Bargholtz (Sweden, Liberal Group) Mady Delvaux-Stehres (SOC) Jean-Charles Gardetto, Head of the Monegasque delegation ELECTION OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL Terry Davis elected Council of Europe Secretary General (more...) Procedure Candidates Terry Davis (United Kingdom) Kristiina Ojuland (Estonia) Walter Schwimmer (Austria) DOCUMENTS "Guide to the session" (pdf) Working documents Press releases Press conferences Speeches Adopted texts Biographies Exhibitions THEME FILES Women and peace Media freedom Human trafficking THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND...  Armenia  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Italy  Norway  the Russian Federation  Turkey CONTACT Communication Unit of the Parliamentary Assembly Tel. +33 3 88 41 31 93 Fax +33 3 90 21 41 34 pace.com@coe.int		A recommendation to end the monitoring of Turkey, measures to combat the "domestic slavery" and a call for an end to political interference in the media in Italy were among issues during the Parliamentary Assembly's summer session. An urgent debate on the "Contribution of the Council of Europe to the settlement of the situation in Irak" took place on Thursday 24 June. Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway and Robert Kotcharian, President of Armenia, addressed the Assembly. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet participated in the debate on "The euro and the Greater Europe" and EBRD President Jean Lemierre in the debate on "The contribution of the EBRD to economic development in central and eastern Europe". Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Jan Petersen, who is chairing the Committee of Ministers, presented the communication from the Committee of Ministers (22 June). The Assembly also elected Terry Davis Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Other points of the session... 25 June 2004 How water can bring peace (more...) Debates on water resources and on refugees close the Assembly session (more...) Condemnation of rebel attacks in the North Caucasus (more...) Election of judges to the Human Rights Court in respect of Portugal and Luxembourg (more...) The way for Monaco to the Council of Europe is open (more...) 24 June 2004 Assembly concerned by media concentration in Italy (more...) The Assembly calls on the Italian government to repeal the ''Cirami law'' (more...) Make Europe a ''corporal-punishment-free zone'' for children, says Assembly (more...) 23 June 2004 Promoting the role of women in all aspects of conflict prevention (more...) Parliamentarians call for ''zero tolerance'' for domestic slavery (more...) 22 June 2004 Parliamentarians vote to end monitoring of Turkey (more...) Photo exhibition – ''Die Neue Mitte'' (more...) Statement on the forthcoming presidential elections in Ukraine (more...) The Bureau of the Assembly will be enlarged from 25 to 36 members (more...) 21 June 2004 Assembly elects new vice president for Spain(more...) One minute of silence for two parliamentarians (more...)		FOCUS Assembly calls for monitoring the observance of refugees’ rights in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova (more..) The Council of Europe should offer to help the UN in Iraq (more...) Peter Schieder:''The way for Monaco to the Council of Europe is open'' (more...) New chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs elected (more..) Robert Kocharian : ''Armenia perceives its future in full-scale integration with the European family''(more..) Speech Video Verbatim report Kjell Magne Bondevik calls for dialogue between cultures and religions (more...) Speech Verbatim report Jean Lemierre says health and education essential to the future of central and eastern Europe (more...) Verbatim report Jan Petersen : Conflict prevention via intercultural dialogue central to our priorities (more...) Verbatim report Jean-Claude Trichet’s pronouncement on Greater Europe : Euro entry brooks no error! (more...) Verbatim report European elections give food for thought and introspection, says Peter Schieder (more...) Video