Parliamentary Delegation to attend Council of Europe Session in Strasbourg

The Maltese parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe will be attending the First Part of the 1999 Ordinary Session of the Council of Europe, to be held in Strasbourg, between the 25th and the 29th January 1999. The delegation, which is led by Dr. John Vella, comprises Dr. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, Dr. John Attard Montalto, Dr. Francis Agius, and Mr Joe Debono Grech.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will be addressed by the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Mr Milan Kucan; the President of Lithuania, Mr Valdas Adamkus; and by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway and Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Mr Knut Vollebaek.

The Parliamentary Assembly will be discussing:

- a project for Greater Europe;
- Georgia's request for membership of the Council of Europe;
- the report on the honouring of obligations and commitments of Turkey as a member state;
- the report on the honouring of obligations and commitments of Ukraine as a member state of the Council of Europe;
- religion and democracy;
- control of internal security services in Europe;
- economic situation in Russia and Ukraine;
- European Campagin on Global Interdependence and Solidarity: Europe against poverty and social exclusion;
- situation of children in Albania; and
- Xenotransplantation.