The first session of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe is held under the provisional chairmanship of Édouard Herriot in the hall of Strasbourg University on 10 August 1949.
On 5 October 2004, the flag of Monaco is raised in front of the Palais de l’Europe in Strasbourg to mark the principality’s accession to the Council of Europe.
On 5 October 2004 in Strasbourg, the Head of State of Monaco, Prince Albert II, signs the instrument of accession to the Statute of the Council of Europe in the presence of the organisation’s Secretary General, Terry Davis.
On 11 May 2007, the accession of Montenegro to the Council of Europe brings the number of Member States in the organisation to 47. The photo shows Milan Rocen, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Montenegro, signing the instrument of accession to the Statute of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in the presence of the organisation’s Secretary General, Terry Davis.
On 21 June 2005, the representatives of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP), on a visit to Strasbourg, inform the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) of the decision to transform the AAPP into an Asian Parliamentary Assembly based on the model of the PACE. The meeting is attended by Luzius Wildhaber, President of the European Court of Human Rights (second from the right).
From 2005 onwards, the Council of Europe denounces the illegal practices, in its Member States, of secret detentions and flights chartered by the CIA transporting terrorism suspects. The photo shows Dick Marty, Rapporteur for the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, who is responsible for studying the issue (seated, on the right), in Strasbourg on 24 January 2006, the day on which he submits an information note concerning these practices. He is accompanied by Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Mateo Sorinas, Secretary General of the Assembly.
On 25 and 26 April 2007, in Strasbourg, on the initiative of the Committee of Experts on Terrorism, the Council of Europe holds an international conference entitled ‘Why terrorism? Addressing the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism’. The photo shows Philippe Boillat, the Council of Europe’s Director General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, and Peter Lizák, Chairman of the Security Committee of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
On 10 November 2004, in Strasbourg, several of the Member States of the Council of Europe sign or ratify Protocol No 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, amending the control system of the Convention. The photo shows Ambassador Neris Germanas, Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the organisation, signing the Protocol (on the left), and Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
