MALTESE PARLIAMENTARIAN ATTENDS COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONFERENCE IN PRAGUE

The Hon John Vella, MP, leader of the Maltese Parliamentary Delegation to the Council of Europe and member of the Political Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe, will be attending the meeting of the said committee to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on the 4^th and 5^th September 2000.

Participants will have an exchange of views with Mr Jan Kavan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Amongst the subjects to be discussed during this meeting are:

-    role of the United Nations in the new millennium;

-    Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

-    situation in Belarus;

-    conflict in the Chechen Republic: recent developments;

-    financing of political parties;

-    European Architecture of the 21^st century; and

-    situation in the Middle-East.