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Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis elected as first woman Secretary General of PACE
Parliamentary Assembly
26 January 2021
Strasbourg
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has elected Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis (Greece) to the post of Secretary General of the Assembly. She becomes the first woman to hold the post in the Assembly’s 72-year history. She will serve for a five-year term starting on 1...
Human rights conventions are the ‘soul’ of modern Europe : Secretary General tells PACE
Parliamentary Assembly
25 January 2021
Strasbourg
Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić has underlined the importance of the Organisation’s two key conventions: the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Social Charter. Addressing a hybrid session of the Parliamentary Assembly, she described them as comprising the “soul...
