Honouring of obligations and commitments by Latvia

Recommendation 1490 (2001)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 23 January 2001 (2nd Sitting) (see Doc. 8924, report of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe, rapporteurs: MM. Davis and Jansson). Text adopted by the Assembly on 23 January 2001 (2nd Sitting).

Thesaurus

1. The Assembly refers to its Resolution 1236 (2001) on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Latvia, in which:

1.1 it welcomes the substantial progress Latvia has made towards honouring its obligations and commitments as a member state since its accession to the Council of Europe on 10 February 1995. Latvia has thus met most of the objectives and deadlines set out in Assembly Opinion No. 183 (1995);

1.2 it expresses the opinion that Latvia is determined to fulfil the remaining commitments;

1.3 it considers the current monitoring procedure as closed; it will carry out its post-monitoring dialogue with the Latvian authorities through its Monitoring Committee on the issues listed in paragraph 5 of Resolution 1236, or any other issue arising from the obligations of Latvia as a member state of the Council of Europe, with a view to reopening the procedure in accordance with Resolution 1115 (1997), if further clarification or enhanced co-operation should be desirable.

2. The Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:

2.1 verify progress made in the implementation of recommendations contained in paragraph 5 of its Resolution 1236 in the framework of its own monitoring procedure when dealing with the relevant themes;

2.2 grant technical assistance to the implementing agencies of the State Language Law and Latvia’s Naturalisation Board, and both financial and technical assistance to the National Programme for Latvian Language Training and the agencies implementing the social integration programme;

2.3 help the Latvian authorities in the framework of the confidence-building projects with a view to strengthening social integration at the level of civil society.