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Parliamentary Delegation attends Council of Europe Session

PR1447

20/09/1996

A parliamentary delegation led by the Hon John Vella, and including	the Hon Joe Fenech, the Hon Michael Asciak, and the Hon Michael Farrugia, will be proceeding to Strasbourg to attend the Fourth Part of the 1996 Ordinary Session of the Council of Europe.
Among the topics to be discussed during this session, which will	open on Monday 23rd September 1996 are the following:-
Proposal for a second summit of heads of state and government of	the Council of Europe;

The future of social policy;

The humanitarian situation of displaced persons in Georgia;

The activities of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in 1995;

World Trade Organisation and implementation of the Uruguay Round;

Opinion on the draft Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine;

Peace process in the Middle East : Israeli-Palestinian	negotiations; and
Migration from the developing countries to the European	industrialised countries.
During this session the Assembly will be addressed by Mr Jorge	Sampaio, President of the Portuguese Republic; Mr Siim Kallas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Estonia; Mr Donald Johnston, Secretary General of the OECD, and Mr Marc Forné, Head of Government of the Principality of Andorra.
The Delegation leaves on Saturday, 21st September on flight KM 450	to Frankfurt and returns on Friday, 27th September 1996 on flight KM 451.

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