[PIO] MP Mr. Nikos Tornaritis will participate in a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in

MP Nicos Tornaritis, head of the Cypriot delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will travel to Riga tomorrow to participate in a meeting of the Assembly's Standing Committee, which will take place on 25 and 26 May 2023.

As part of the session, Mr. Tornaritis will participate in a round table discussion on "Artificial Intelligence, freedom of expression and misinformation: challenges and risks for democracy". Other issues to be discussed by the Standing Committee include the assessment of the results of the Council of Europe Summit of Heads of State held in Reykjavik on 16 May 2023, the conclusions of the CSCE ad hoc mission on the holding of early elections in Bulgaria on 2 April 2023 and the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from sporting events.

The meeting of the Standing Committee will be addressed by Mr Edvards Smiltēns, Speaker of the Latvian Parliament, and Mr Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia.

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