Strasbourg, 28.04.2026 – Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, will travel to Yerevan to participate in the 8th European Political Community Summit on Monday, 4 May. Secretary General Berset will participate in the roundtable on...
Strasbourg, 10.06.2025 – Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will visit Armenia on 11–12 June for a series of meetings. The Secretary General will meet with President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of...
Strasbourg, 14.03.2025 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, welcomes the announcements of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the finalisation of negotiations on the draft Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations....
Strasbourg, 13.11.2024 – The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published today the report on its September 2023 periodic visit to Armenia (see also the executive summary), together with...
Strasbourg, 03.07.2024 – The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has issued a public statement on Azerbaijan today. This Statement, which is made...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today elected Alain Berset (Switzerland) as Secretary General of the Council of Europe for a five-year term beginning on 18 September 2024.In the second round...
Strasbourg, 22.05.2024 – The Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of the Council of Europe has called on Czechia to design and implement a specific strategy and action plan for...
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined its affiliate in Armenia, the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA), in denouncing the authorities’ misuse of anti-hooliganism legislation to suppress press freedom and freedom of expression. The EFJ and UJA...
Venice, 19.04.2024 – On the occasion of the 60th Venice Biennale, the Council of Europe is organising an event in Venice on 20 April under the title the Other Session, to discuss and assess, through dialogues,...
Armenia: Council of Europe anti-corruption body GRECO calls for stronger oversight and accountability in top executive functions and the police Strasbourg, 18.04.2024 – The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), in...
Strasbourg, 28.04.2026 – Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, will travel to Yerevan to participate in the 8th European Political Community Summit on Monday, 4 May. Secretary General Berset will participate in the roundtable on democratic resilience and hybrid threats on Monday, 4 May. His intervention will focus on foreign...
Strasbourg, 10.06.2025 – Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will visit Armenia on 11–12 June for a series of meetings. The Secretary General will meet with President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, and Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan. He will also deliver...
Strasbourg, 14.03.2025 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, welcomes the announcements of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the finalisation of negotiations on the draft Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations. When joining the Council of Europe in 2001, both countries pledged to work towards peaceful...
Strasbourg, 13.11.2024 – The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published today the report on its September 2023 periodic visit to Armenia (see also the executive summary), together with the response of the Armenian authorities. The delegation examined the situation of persons deprived of their liberty...
Strasbourg, 03.07.2024 – The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has issued a public statement on Azerbaijan today. This Statement, which is made in application of Article 10 (2) of the Convention establishing the Committee (*), addresses the...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today elected Alain Berset (Switzerland) as Secretary General of the Council of Europe for a five-year term beginning on 18 September 2024.In the second round of the election, Mr Berset obtained 114 votes, a majority of the votes cast. The...
Strasbourg, 22.05.2024 – The Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages of the Council of Europe has called on Czechia to design and implement a specific strategy and action plan for protecting and promoting each of the languages covered by the treaty in the country: German,...
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined its affiliate in Armenia, the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA), in denouncing the authorities’ misuse of anti-hooliganism legislation to suppress press freedom and freedom of expression. The EFJ and UJA demand the immediate release of Narek Samsonyan and Vazgen Saghatelyan, co-authors of the podcast “Imnemnimi”, imprisoned for criticising...
Venice, 19.04.2024 – On the occasion of the 60th Venice Biennale, the Council of Europe is organising an event in Venice on 20 April under the title the Other Session, to discuss and assess, through dialogues, performances and exhibitions, the landscape of artistic freedom in Europe, and to identify measures needed...
Armenia: Council of Europe anti-corruption body GRECO calls for stronger oversight and accountability in top executive functions and the police Strasbourg, 18.04.2024 – The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), in a report published today, calls on Armenia to pursue its efforts to prevent corruption in respect of...
