di-ve.com, Malta

Leo Brincat to attend Political Affairs meeting at the Council of
Europe

by Ronald Mizzi, di-ve news (ronmiz@di-ve.com)

VALLETTA, Malta (di-ve news)—November 16, 2004 – 1855CET–MLP main
spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Leo Brincat, today left for Paris to
attend a Political Affairs meeting of the Council of Europe. Above
all, the meeting will discuss proposals for a near future round-table
about the political situation in Chechnya.

The meeting will also discuss the Third Summit of the Council of
Europe that will be held next year marking the 60-year anniversary
since the end of the Second World War.

The summit coincides also with the 15-year anniversary since the
democratic transition in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the situation in the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, and the fight against totalitarianism, are
also on the agenda.

As from last October, Brincat started acting as a member of the
External Relations sub-committee of the Political Affairs Committee
within the Council of Europe. The Committee is responsible of
relations with countries that are not members of the Council and with
organizations such as the EU, UN and OSCE.