The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine
Recommendation 2035
(2014)
Author(s):
Parliamentary Assembly
Origin
Assembly
debate on 30 January 2014 (7th Sitting)
(see Doc. 13405 and addendum, report of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations
and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring
Committee), co-rapporteurs: Ms Mailis Reps and Ms Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin). Text adopted by the Assembly on
30 January 2014 (7th Sitting).
1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers
to its Resolution 1974
(2014) on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine,
in which it raises a number of concerns about the recent political
crisis and outbreaks of violence in Ukraine.
2. The Assembly recalls in this respect the Committee of Ministers’
1994 Declaration on compliance with commitments accepted by member
States of the Council of Europe, which refers to the statutory responsibility incumbent
on it for ensuring full respect of the commitments in all member
States, without prejudice to other existing procedures, including
activities of the Parliamentary Assembly and other conventional
control bodies.
3. The Assembly therefore recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
3.2 consider a reinforced and specific monitoring procedure
by the Committee of Ministers in respect of Ukraine;
3.3 consider readjusting the co-operation programme with Ukraine
with a view to ensuring that the underlying causes of the political
crisis, as inter alia set
out in Resolution 1974
(2014), are properly addressed;
3.4 give full support to the initiative of the Secretary General
of the Council of Europe to establish an advisory panel to investigate
the outbreaks of violence in relation to the protests in Kiev, and
encourage the Ukrainian authorities, as well as the opposition parties
in that country, to constructively co-operate with this panel and
to appoint their representatives to it.
