15/03/2018 (Agence Europe) – Russia has not invited the Council of Europe (CoE) to join the observers of the presidential election to be held in the country on Sunday 16 March, but it has asked for two members of the CoE’s parliamentary assembly (PACE), Spaniards Pedro Agramunt and Jordi Xuclà. Formerly president of PACE, Agramunt was forced to resign after meeting Bashar al-Assad during a trip to Syria in a private Russian plane without informing PACE (see EUROPE 11878). Xuclà was...