ISSUE OF REFUGEES IN SOUTH CAUCASUS TO BE DISCUSSED AT PACE SESSION

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 10 2006

Relations between the Council of Europe and the European Union will
be the principal subject of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of
Europe (PACE) spring session that is to be held in Strasbourg current
April 10-13.

Debates on Memorandum of Mutual Understanding between the two European
organizations will be conducted in the course of the session,
PanARMENIAN.Net reports. The Council of Europe Secretary General
Terry Davis and Chairman of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs
Committee Elmar Brock will participate in the discussions.

The reports on the role of a native language in school education,
refugees and displaced persons in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia,
struggle against corruption in the Council of Europe’s member states
will be discussed at the session.

As for the issue of refugees and displaced persons in Azerbaijan,
Armenia and Georgia, it will be discussed on the ground of the PACE
Committee on Migration’s Report presented February 6, 2006 by a
representative of Latvia Boris Kilevich.

The report runs, in part, that non-settlement of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict results in difficulties referring to the refugees’
situation and hampers the countries’ development in the economic and
social-political sphere, the CE Communications’ Directorate reports.