Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe President Tiny Kox during the CoE Summit in Reykjavik. He invited Ms. Tsikhanouskaya to speak at the PACE plenary session in June, which will feature a presentation of the report on the...
The Contact Group on Belarus was established within the Council of Europe by the resolution of the CoE Committee of Ministers on September 7, 2022. The Group comprises representatives of the democratic forces and civil society of Belarus, as well as...
This week Iceland assumed the presidency of the Council of Europe, and from January 1 Iceland will preside over the Nordic Council, which consists of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and itself. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya paid a working visit to Reykjavik,...
As part of the visit, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke at the World Forum for Democracy held by the Council of Europe and attended by representatives of more than 100 countries. Ms. Tsikhanouskaya met with the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
The Council of Europe decided to establish a Contact Group for cooperation with Belarusian society. In this way, the Council of Europe adopted Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s proposal, voiced at her meetings with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and...
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya arrived in Strasbourg to address the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament’s governing political body. Representatives of more than 50 countries, including the Secretary General of the Council of...
The Council of Europe suspends all contacts with Lukashenka’s regime because of its involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The regime’s representatives will no longer be able to take part in meetings of the Council of Europe or its bodies, even as observers. At...
