Honouring of obligations and commitments by Albania

Recommendation 1312 (1997)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 29 January 1997 (5th Sitting) (see Doc. 7716, report by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, rapporteur: Mr Columberg; and Doc. 7738, opinion by the Political Affairs Committee, rapporteur: Mr Van der Linden). Text adopted by the Assembly on 29 January 1997 (5th Sitting).

Thesaurus

Referring to its Resolution 1114 (1997), the Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers help Albania's efforts, in particular by:

1 stepping up financial and expert aid to Albania in the fields of the legislative process, protection of human rights and reform of judicial institutions and law-enforcement bodies;

2 bringing the work on the establishment of a magistrates' school and the reform of the police academy (in the framework of the intergovernmental programme) to a rapid conclusion;

3 extending its co-operation programme to the Albanian bar association;

4 helping to build up local administrative structures which correspond to Council of Europe standards;

5 providing assistance in the elaboration of a new constitution