Baku to host CoE hearings
By Sara Rajabova
Baku is to host hearings with participation of candidates for the post of Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), the report of the Bureau and the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) reads.
The report noted that, taking into account the resolution of the Committee of Ministers of the CoE, in Paris on March 6 at the bureau meeting under the chairmanship of Azerbaijan of the Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe it was decided to invite candidates for Secretary General of the CoE to the hearings in Baku on May 22.
Three candidates - incumbent Secretary General of the organization Thorbjorn Jagland (Norway), Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (Germany) and Jean-Claude Mignon (France) - put forward their candidacies for the post of CoE Secretary General.
Following the voting on April 7, Jagland and Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger gained the highest number of votes.
Under the procedure of elections for the post of secretary-general, the two candidates will be submitted to PACE, which will announce the name of the new secretary general of CoE for the next five years during the spring session in June.
Jagland holds the position since October 2009.
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