Delegation: Rudolf Filkus, Deputy Chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Independent; Dušan Slobodník, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for Movement for Democratic Slovakia (HZDS); Irena Belohorská, Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Arpád Tarnóczy, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Alica Bieliková, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Jozef Hanker, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for HZDS; Peter Lauko, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for the Christian Democratic Movem ...[+++]ent; Lubomír Fogaš, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for Party of Democratic Left; Eduard Kukan, Member of the Foreign Affairs Standing Committee, MP for Democratic Union and one of the leaders of the Slovak Democratic Coalition.

Last but not least, in Syria's northeast, the Democratic Union Party, PYD, the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, dominates those areas.

for use in connection with a violation of human rights, democratic principles or freedom of speech as defined by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, by using interception technologies and digital data transfer devices for monitoring mobile phones and text messages and targeted surveillance of Internet use (e.g. via Monitoring Centres and Lawful Interception Gateways).

The Treaty on European Union (TEU) reinforces citizenship of the Union and enhances further the democratic functioning of the Union by providing, inter alia, that every citizen is to have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union by way of a European citizens’ initiative.

Is the government now considering supporting the proposal endorsed by the International Democratic Union, the Liberal International and the Socialist International to create a UN based international court of human rights to bring those who have violated international human rights to justice?

Mr. Ed Broadbent: I would want to discuss that and look at all the kinds of complex issues that I think are embedded in this bill and that I've thought about in dealing with this question of a secession within a democratic union.