Winter Session 2020


The following pre-recorded videos will be available online around two hours after their delivery.
Original language versions of pre-recorded videos are available on the Parliamentary Assembly website.
Monday 27 January 2020
Full session
Opening of the Session
Rik Daems, President of the Parliamentary Assembly
Progress report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee
Debate: Observation of the early parliamentary elections in Belarus (17 November 2019)
Communication from the Committee of Ministers: David Zalkaliani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Tuesday 28 January 2020
Full session
Election: Judge to the European Court of Human Rights
Debate: The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland
Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia
Debate: Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe
Wednesday 29 January 2020
Full session
Debate: The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace
Igor Dodon, President of the Republic of Moldova
Communication from Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Debate: Complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations
Debate: Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation
Thursday 30 January 2020
Full Session
Debate under urgent procedure: International obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war and conflict zones
Debate: Reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan
Joint debate: Concerted action against human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants - Missing refugee and migrant children in Europe
Debate: The progress of the Assembly's monitoring procedure (January-December 2019)
Friday 31 January 2020
Full Session
Debate: Democracy hacked? How to respond?
Joint debate:
- Organ transplant tourism
- Combating trafficking in human tissues and cells


