The Parliamentary Assembly notes that the Russian Federation
shares fully its understanding and interpretation of commitments
entered into as spelt out in paragraph 7, and intends:
10.1 to sign the European Convention
on Human Rights at the moment of accession; to ratify the Convention
and Protocols Nos. 1, 2, 4, 7 and 11 within a year; to recognise,
pending the entry into force of Protocol No. 11, the right of individual
application to the European Commission and the compulsory jurisdiction
of the European Court (Articles 25 and 46 of the Convention);
10.2 to sign within one year and ratify within three years
from the time of accession Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention
on Human Rights on the abolition of the death penalty in time of
peace, and to put into place a moratorium on executions with effect
from the day of accession;
10.3 to sign and ratify within a year from the time of accession
the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment;
10.4 to sign and ratify within a year from the time of accession
the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National
Minorities; to conduct its policy towards minorities on the principles
set forth in Assembly
Recommendation
1201 (1993), and to incorporate these principles into the legal
and administrative system and practice of the country;
10.5 to sign and ratify within a year from the time of accession
the European Charter of Local Self-Government and the European Charter
for Regional or Minority Languages; to study, with a view to ratification,
the Council of Europe's Social Charter; and meanwhile to conduct
its policy in accordance with the principles of these conventions;
10.6 to sign and ratify and meanwhile to apply the basic principles
of other Council of Europe conventions - notably those on extradition;
on mutual assistance in criminal matters; on the transfer of sentenced
persons; and on the laundering, search, seizure and confiscation
of the proceeds of crime;
10.7 to settle international as well as internal disputes by
peaceful means (an obligation incumbent upon all member states of
the Council of Europe), rejecting resolutely any forms of threats
of force against its neighbours;
10.8 to settle outstanding international border disputes according
to the principles of international law, abiding by the existing
international treaties;
10.9 to ratify, within six months from the time of accession,
the agreement of 21 October 1994 between the Russian and Moldovan
Governments, and to continue the withdrawal of the 14th Army and
its equipment from the territory of Moldova within a time-limit
of three years from the date of signature of the agreement;
10.10 to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty on Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe (CFE);
10.11 to denounce as wrong the concept of two different categories
of foreign countries, whereby some are treated as a zone of special
influence called the "near abroad";
10.12 to negotiate claims for the return of cultural property
to other European countries on an ad hoc basis that differentiates
between types of property (archives, works of art, buildings, etc.)
and of ownership (public, private or institutional);
10.13 to return without delay the property of religious institutions;
10.14 to settle rapidly all issues related to the return of
property claimed by Council of Europe member states, in particular
the archives transferred to Moscow in 1945;
10.15 to cease to restrict - with immediate effect - international
travel of persons aware of state secrets, with the exception of
those restrictions which are generally accepted in Council of Europe
member states, and to facilitate the consultation of archives kept
in the Russian Federation;
10.16 to ensure that the application of the CIS Convention on
Human Rights does not in any way interfere with the procedure and
guarantees of the European Convention on Human Rights;
10.17 to revise the law on federal security services in order
to bring it into line with Council of Europe principles and standards
within one year from the time of accession: in particular, the right
of the Federal Security Service (FSB) to possess and run pre-trial
detention centres should be withdrawn;
10.18 to adopt a law on alternative military service, as foreseen
in Article 59 of the constitution;
10.19 to reduce, if not eliminate, incidents of ill-treatment
and deaths in the armed forces outside military conflicts;
10.20 to pursue legal reform with a view to bringing all legislation
in line with Council of Europe principles and standards: in particular,
Presidential Decree No. 1226 should be revised without delay;
10.21 to extend its international co-operation to prevent -
and eliminate the ecological effects of - natural and technological
disasters;
10.22 to sign and ratify within a year from the time of accession
the General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Council
of Europe and its additional protocols;
10.23 to co-operate fully in the implementation of Assembly
Order No. 508 (1995) on the honouring of obligations and commitments
by member states of the Council of Europe, as well as in monitoring processes
established by virtue of the Committee of Ministers' Declaration
of 10 November 1994 (95th session);
10.24 to respect strictly the provisions of international humanitarian
law, including in cases of armed conflict on its territory;
10.25 to co-operate in good faith with international humanitarian
organisations and to enable them to carry on their activities on
its territory in conformity with their mandates.
