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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Wojciech Sawicki
- Wojciech Sawicki (born 20 March 1955 in Warsaw) heads the secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), a body bringing together 324 parliamentarians from the national parliaments of the 47 Council of Europe member states.
- He was elected its Secretary General in 2010 for a five-year term of office beginning in February 2011, and was re-elected for a further five-year term in September 2015.
- From 1990-96 he served as Secretary General of the Polish Senate, the upper house of the Polish parliament, playing a leading role in helping to re-establish democracy in Poland after the collapse of communism in 1989. Presenting his candidacy to PACE members in 2010, he said: “Being from Poland – a country which was cut off from most of Europe by the Iron Curtain and where, for years, I participated actively in the democratic opposition movement – I know the true value and real meaning of democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
- I know how important it is for Europe to be united in defence of these principles.”
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