17/12/2009 Monitoring
In a draft resolution adopted in Paris on 17 December, PACE Monitoring Committee urges the Albanian government and opposition to put an end to the current political crisis and assume their responsibilities in order to proceed with vital reforms.
The government should set up, without further delay, a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the June 2009 elections and the opposition should return to parliament and fully participate in its work, the committee said. The Albanian authorities should also improve the legislative electoral framework, in close co-operation with the Venice Commission.
PACE's Presidential Committee, together with the co-rapporteurs for Albania, Jaakko Laakso (Finland, UEL) and David Wilshire (United Kingdom, EDG), should visit the country as soon as possible after the PACE winter session, during which the Assembly will discuss the functioning of democratic institutions in Albania.