I min tid som generalsekretær for Europarådet havde jeg lejlighed til at konstatere, at der kun var få kontakter, og selv da vi fik en institutionel ramme som aftalen fra 1987 og dermed et støttepunkt, udvikledes disse kontakter ikke i tilstrækkelig grad.
During my time as Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, I observed that contacts between the two organizations were somewhat limited, and that even when we had a solid institutional basis — the 1987 agreement — our relations were not developed to an adequate extent.