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Evangelos Venizelos in a committee of sages of the Council of Europe – Accepted the proposal of Mitsotakis

The government made an opening to the former President of PASOK Evangelos Venizelos, as after a proposal of the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mr. Venizelos will fill the Greek position in the seven-member Committee of Wise Men of the Council of Europe (Council of Europe’s High-level Reflection Group) .

More specifically, Evangelos Venizelos has been appointed a member of the seven-member High Level Reflection Group (Council of Europe’s High Level Reflection Group) which will propose the role that the Council of Europe is called to play, promoting its statutory goals and European values, in in the new landscape formed by the Russian invasion and the war in Ukraine and after the exclusion of Russia from the Organization, but also its denunciation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The High Level Group was set up by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, in implementation of a decision by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

The high-level group includes, in addition to Mr Venizelos, former Prime Ministers of France Bernard Cazeneuve and Slovakia Iveta Radičová, former High Representative of the EU Federica Mogherini, former Norwegian Foreign Minister Inne Eride and former Prime Minister Sene Erie of Andorra Josep Dallerès Codina.

The Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had asked Mr. Venizelos to accept the relevant proposal of the Greek Government, the Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Barvitsiotis participates in the Committee of Ministers and is responsible for the affairs of the Council of Europe and the Ambassador of Greece presented the Greek proposal to the Secretary General.

Source: Capital

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