Sitting of the Bureau, Presidential Committee, Standing Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, and Ad Hoc Committee on the Reform of the PACE will be held in Kyiv on May 26-27.
On Friday, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, will deliver a welcome speech at the meeting. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Head of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Kostiantyn Hryshchenko will speak before the members of the national delegations.
The participants of the meeting will discuss the agenda of the third PACE session (June 20-24, 2011), and results of monitoring over the presidential elections in Kazakhstan on April 3, 2011.
Agenda of the Standing Committee covers the following issues: nuclear program in Iran in the light of the necessary effective international response; influence of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union on the government and economic development of the Eastern Europe; support of microlending aimed at the social economy; reforms of the equal rights for fishing in the common waters and common agrarian policy; potential risks of radio fields and their influence on the environment; health hazards of heavy metals.