19/02/2010 President
Speaking at the press conference marking the end of a two-day conference on the future of the European Court of Human Rights in Interlaken, organised by the Swiss chairmanship of the Council of Europe, PACE President Mevlüt Cavusoglu re-affirmed the Parliamentary Assembly’s full support for the Final Declaration.
He also expressed hope for a rapid EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, creating one human rights standard for one Europe. He also recalled the crucial role of PACE in monitoring the implementation of the Strasbourg Court’s decision on the one hand and in the election of the judges on the other. “But we have to bear in mind that if the highest judicial organs in our member states have to recognise the judgments of the Strasbourg Court as authorative, the Assembly has to be in a position to elect top quality judges from lists of the highest level, he warned.