PACE President to leave for Turkey
Lluís Maria de Puig, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making an official visit to Turkey from 10 to 13 October.
He is scheduled to hold meetings with the President, Abdullah Gül, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, Mehmet Ali Şahin, the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Minister for European Affairs and chief negotiator with the EU, Egemen Bağiş, and the Chair of the Turkish national parliamentary delegation to the PACE, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. Mr de Puig will also hold talks with the leaders of the political parties represented in parliament.
On 10 October, Mr. de Puig will attend the award ceremony for the PACE 2009 Europe Prize which this year went to Ankara in particular for its 40 twinning agreements with other cities in the world.
