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Russia contented with work on PACE report on 1930s famine in USSR The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's (PACE) Political Affairs Committee will discuss the preparation of a report on the mass famine in the USSR in the 1930s at its session in Brussels on November 17 Konstantin Kosachyov the head of the Russian delegation at PACE and the chairman of the State Duma international affairs committee, told Interfax.

Kosachyov praised the way the work on this report is proceeding. The report will be presented by Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey possibly during the January session, he said.

Cavusoglu may be elected the PACE president at this session, as the tenure of the incumbent president, Lluis Maria de Puig of Spain, is expiring, Kosachyov said.

"We are fully satisfied with the work on the draft report, which does not disproportionately overstress the so-called Holodomor in Ukraine, on which this country's leadership is insisting," Kosachyov said.