PACE to debate challenge of credentials on Thursday
At the opening of its Winter plenary session (25-29 January 2010) in Strasbourg this morning, the Assembly decided to hold a current affairs debate on what Europe can do for Haiti, an item that will be debated on Thursday morning, and to debate the challenge of the credentials of the parliamentary delegations of Albania and Armenia, a question which will be discussed the same day. Other highlights of the session include debates on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the situation in the Middle East (with statements by Daniel Ayalon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, and Mohammad Shtayyeh, Minister of Public Works and Housing of the Palestinian National Authority) and action against trafficking in human beings.
