05/06/2009 Monitoring
The PACE Monitoring Committee, meeting in Paris today, has adopted its contribution to the debate on the state of human rights in Europe to be held by the Assembly on 24 June, during its forthcoming plenary session in Strasbourg. The text contains conclusions drawn from the specific reports on the eleven States currently subject to a monitoring procedure (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Russian Federation, Serbia and Ukraine) and the three subject to post-monitoring dialogue (Bulgaria, Turkey and "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia").
Among the subjects the Committee wories about, are issues relating to the independence of judicial systems, political prisoners, freedom of expression and of association, the situation of refugees and non-discrimination.