07/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - An attentive reader has correctly pointed out that the report that the European Parliament and the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly had held their first joint meeting on Tuesday 24 September (see Europe of 26 September, p.6) needs to be supplemented. The two parliamentary assemblies in fact held "joint meetings" from 1953 to 1978. The first joint meeting of members of the Council of Europe Consultative Assembly and the Common Assembly of the ECSC was held in Strasbourg on 22 June 1953, chaired by François de Menthon and attended by Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority. On 26 January 1978, the 23rd joint meeting was attended by members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly and the European Parliament on the subject of human rights around the world, where Jacques Santer was the EP rapporteur and where the President of the Political Committee, Mr Bertrand, expressed hope that a charter of the rights of EEC citizens would be drawn up.