PACE winter session opens in Strasbourg.

PACE winter session opens in Strasbourg.

ITAR-TASS, Russia
Jan 22 2007

STRASBOURG, January 22 (Itar-Tass) — The situation in Kosovo and the
rights of children are on the top of the agenda of the winter session
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which
opened here on Monday.

According to the information of PACE President Rene van der Linden,
the agenda of the session includes as well problems of energy security
and monitoring reports on North Ossetia (Alania) and Armenia. The
problem of the threat to the life and freedom of journalists will be
discussed at an urgent debate.

The parliamentary delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan are going
to meet at the PACE session for discussing the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. The OSCE Minsk Conference is working to promote its
settlement.