On Friday 28 April, the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) reached a common position making its mistrust in its President, Pedro Agramunt, official. Agramunt's meeting in late March with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has prompted an unprecedented row in the hemicycle (see EUROPE 11774, 11773).
In his written statement promised at his hearing of Tuesday 25 April and submitted to the Bureau first thing on Friday, Agramunt did not offer his resignation...