MALTESE PARLIAMENTARIANS TO ATTEND COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEETING IN PRAGUE

The Hon John Vella, MP, Leader of the Malta Delegation to the Council of Europe, and the Hon Joe Debono Grech, MP, will be attending the meeting of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe to be held in Prague between the 2nd and 4th September 2001.

Amongst the subjects to be discussed are:

- a proactive social policy for children and	adolescents in towns and cities;
- the follow-up to a European Strategy for	Children;
- the development of public health action with a	view to reducing tobacco and alcohol consumption;
- social consequences of and responses to drug	misuse in member States;

- the treatment and cure of spinal injury;

- social and health policies of the Government of the Czech Republic in the light of Council of Europe instruments and the acquis of the European Union; and

- improving the lot of abandoned children.