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San Marino presents its priorities for the next six months of the Committee of Ministers chairmanship

/noticias.info/ Strasbourg, 15.11.2006 – Fiorenzo Stolfi, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of San Marino, presented the priorities fixed by his country today as it took up the chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers for the next six months.

The three main priorities are:

- promoting intercultural and inter-religious dialogue,
- defending and developing human rights and fundamental freedoms, particularly through enhanced effectiveness of the monitoring mechanism of the European Convention on Human Rights,
- strengthening cooperation with the other international organisations.

The San Marino chairmanship backs the work on preparing the White Paper on intercultural dialogue and will emphasise the role of education in this sphere, particularly education for “plural European citizenship”.

In order to guarantee effectiveness of the monitoring mechanism of the European Convention on Human Rights, San Marino will firmly commit itself to implementing Protocol No. 14 to the Convention and following up the report which the "Group of Wise Persons" has just forwarded to the outgoing Russian chairmanship.

The San Marino chairmanship will attach great importance and give its backing to the various campaigns currently run by the Council of Europe: ''Stop domestic violence", “Europe for and with children”, "All different, all equal" and the campaign against trafficking in human beings.

In order to guarantee complementarity and synergy between the main European organisations, San Marino will support regular consultation between representatives of all the organisations concerned. The chairmanship will also make efforts to finalise the Memorandum of understanding with the European Union and is committed to strengthening cooperation between the Council of Europe and the United Nations.

Events to be noted

2 conferences to be organised by the San Marino chairmanship:

· in February/March: a seminar on "The future of the European Court of Human Rights, in the light of the Wise Persons’ report"
· on 23-24 April: Conference on Inter-religious and Intercultural dialogue in Europe.

For more information, see http://www.coe.int/CM-Chairmanship/


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