When adopting its final agenda at the opening of the Winter Session 2013, PACE decided to hold two urgent debates: on "Recent developments in Mali and Algeria and the threat to security and human rights in the Mediterranean region" and on "Migration and asylum: mounting tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean".
Addresses by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle, and Italian Justice Minister Paola Severino are among highlights of the Session. (more...)