02/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - The chair of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Slovenian foreign minister Samuel Zbogar, has congratulated Thorbjorn Jagland on his election as secretary general of the Council of Europe for a five year term. The 59-year-old former Norwegian Labour prime minister was elected by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly in the first round on 29 September 2009, winning 165 votes, way ahead of his rival, Poland's W³odzimierz Cimoszewicz, who...