Addresses by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić and the Speaker of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin will be among highlights of PACE's forthcoming autumn plenary session (30 September-4 October 2013).

Also on the agenda are debates on national security and access to information, on the functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on children's right to physical integrity. There has been a request for an urgent debate on the situation in Syria.

OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría will address the Assembly in the framework of an annual debate on the OECD's activities, while Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will speak in a debate on missing persons from Europe's conflicts. (more...)