Very strongly challenged after his meeting with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the end of March, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Pedro Agramunt from Spain, has agreed to take part in a hearing on Tuesday 25 April.
Agramunt addressed this issue at the opening of the PACE plenary on Monday 24 April and acknowledged that his visit to Syria, which was organised at the request of Khadija Abbas, the speaker of the Syrian Parliament, had been "a...