PACE to hold urgent debate on Ukraine

10:38, 30.01.2014 1 min read

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold an urgent debate on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine.

An Interfax-Ukraine reporter said that the debate would be held as part of the PACE's winter session in Strasbourg on Thursday.

The rapporteurs are members of the PACE Monitoring Committee, Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP).

Following the discussion the PACE will hold a vote on a resolution in which the Monitoring Committee strongly condemns the escalating violence by both sides, calls for dialogue for a peaceful resolution of the situation and threatens to suspend the voting rights of the Ukrainian delegation at the next session if grave human rights violations continue.