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Cypriot takes chair of pan-European assembly
By EUobserver
Stella Kyriakides, a Cypriot politician, was elected on Tuesday president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), a pan-European human rights watchdog. Kyriakides, the first Cypriot and third woman to hold the position, succeeds Spain's Pedro Agramunt who resigned last week over criticism of a trip to Syria with Russian deputies.