Considering that the efforts undertaken so far by all actors
involved, starting with the Russian Federation Government, administration
and judicial system, but also including the Council of Europe and
its member states, have failed dismally to improve the human rights
situation and to ensure that past human rights violations, and particularly
war crimes, are adequately prosecuted, the Assembly recommends that
the Committee of Ministers:
3.1 reorient
its assistance programmes in the North Caucasus towards an amelioration
of the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic as the priority
objective, and allocate sufficient funds to these programmes to
make a real difference;
3.2 ensure that non-governmental organisations active in preventing
and documenting human rights violations in the Chechen Republic,
as well as those assisting their victims in different ways, are
involved in the said assistance programmes;
3.3 take all possible measures to increase the effectiveness
of the current mandate of the Council of Europe experts working
in the Office of the Special Representative of the President of
the Russian Federation for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic
as regards their possibility of influencing the human rights situation;
3.4 urge the Government of the Russian Federation to fully
comply with the
Resolution
1323;
3.5 if the efforts to bring to justice those responsible for
human rights violations are not intensified, and the climate of
impunity in the Chechen Republic prevails, consider proposing to
the international community the setting up of an ad hoc tribunal
to try war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Chechen
Republic
