The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will debate a resolution that proposes banning the doctors from telling the parents the sex of the baby before birth owing to sex-selective abortions. The autumn session of the PACE is taking place in Strasbourg between October 3 and 7. Moldova’s delegation is headed by Deputy Speaker Liliana Palihovich, Info-Prim Neo reports. The authors of the resolution argued the rate of sex-selective abortions in many member states of the Council of Europe, especially Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, reached alarming proportions. According to a communiqué from the Moldovan Parliament’s press office, at the session Moldova is represented by MPs Liliana Palihovich, Valeriu Ghiletski, Valeriu Munteanu, and Grigore Petrenko. The agenda of the autumn session includes such issues as the cooperation between the Council of Europe and the emerging democracies in the Arab world, abuse of state secrecy and national security, protection of personal information on the Internet and in the online mass media, situation of migrant children without appropriate documents, and combating of extreme pornography. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Konstantin Gryshchenko, chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, will render a report, while the president of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas will deliver a speech.