January 7, 2012 - 15:19 AMT
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: battle against racism, xenophobia priority to PACE

The outgoing PACE president Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu summed up the results of his activities on air of Voice of Turkey radio station.

“We launched a struggle against dramatically increasing tendencies of racism and xenophobia in Europe as a threat which cannot be underestimated,” the speaker said, naming the struggle a priority issue on PACE agenda.

“Also, the work to consolidate the inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue is in progress,” Çavuşoğlu noted.