{"id":51694,"date":"2024-06-24T02:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riigikogu.ee\/pressiteated\/pace-is-electing-a-new-secretary-general-in-strasbourg\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T23:40:16","slug":"pace-is-electing-a-new-secretary-general-in-strasbourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riigikogu.ee\/en\/pressiteated\/pace-is-electing-a-new-secretary-general-in-strasbourg\/","title":{"rendered":"PACE is electing a new Secretary General in Strasbourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election will take place tomorrow at the PACE plenary sitting and one of the leading candidates for the position is the long-time member of the Estonian delegation to the PACE and honorary member of the PACE <strong>Indrek Saar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Head of the Estonian delegation <strong>Liisa-Ly Pakosta<\/strong> sees this as a historical opportunity because Indrek Saar has reached the final round of voting, which is in itself a very high praise for his committed work in the Council of Europe. \u201cIndrek enjoys the full support of the Estonian government and the Riigikogu delegation. We have all actively sought further support by highlighting Estonia\u2019s efforts in security, digital development, and environmental topics while protecting human rights,\u201d Pakosta stressed. Other candidates running besides Saar are <strong>Didier Reynders<\/strong> (Belgium, ALDE) and <strong>Alain Berset <\/strong>(Switzerland, SOC).<\/p>\n<p>At its plenary today, the PACE will discuss the challenges faced by democracy in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Assembly will discuss the legal and human rights aspects of the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine and enhancing the sanctions against Russia. The discussion will also touch on fight against erasure of cultural identity \u2014identicide\u2014in war or peace. Thursday will be dedicated to seeking both immediate as well as long-term political solutions to support the people resettled from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule includes a speech by the President of Ukraine <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Estonian delegation to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> part-session of the PACE plenary assembly is made up of its head <strong>Liisa-Ly Pakosta <\/strong>and members <strong>Eerik-Niiles Kross<\/strong>,<strong> Aleksei Jevgrafov<\/strong>, <strong>Reili Rand, <\/strong>and <strong>T\u00f5nis Lukas<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will elect a new Secretary General of the Council at its plenary sitting in Strasbourg and will discuss enhancing sanctions against Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":41053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"news_related_unit":[],"news_expired_unit":[],"class_list":["post-51694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PACE is electing a new Secretary General in Strasbourg &#8211; 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