16/08/2012 | Monitoring
The PACE co-rapporteurs for Ukraine, Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), welcomed the release on Tuesday of Valeriy Ivaschenko, who was acting Defence Minister in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko. At the same time, they expressed their hope that his release would soon be followed by that of Juriy Lutsenko and Yulia Timoshenko whose ongoing detention is of concern to the Assembly.
07/08/2012 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), PACE rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, welcomed the release of the Franco-Turkish student Sevil Sevimli. “We were gravely concerned over Ms Sevimli’s arrest and imprisonment. We have followed developments in this case, in liaison with the family. Moreover, under my terms of reference as rapporteur to the Parliamentary Assembly, I have set up a contact with the Turkish Minister of Justice,” explained Ms Durrieu...
13/07/2012 | Monitoring
Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC), one of the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the honouring of obligations and commitments by Russia, will make a fact-finding visit to this country on 16-17 July, with a view to preparing a report to be discussed at the next session of PACE. During his visit, Mr Gross will meet representatives of the State Duma, the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, and of the Prosecutor’s General office. Talks are also scheduled in Nizhniy Novgorod.
28/06/2012 | Monitoring
If Ukraine’s Court of Cassation does not satisfactorily resolve the issue of the imprisoned former government members, President Yanukovych should intervene politically in order to resolve the issue, according to PACE’s monitoring co-rapporteurs for Ukraine Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD).
25/06/2012 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC), have welcomed the pardon by President Aliyev and release of nine of the eleven prisoners of conscience still detained since the March-April 2011 demonstrations in Baku.
22/06/2012 | Monitoring
At the end of a fact-finding visit to Turkey from 17 to 21 June 2012, PACE’s rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey Josette Durrieu (France, SOC) has urged the Turkish authorities to speed up the revision of the Penal Code and the anti-terror law in order to strengthen freedom of expression...
15/06/2012 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), PACE rapporteur for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, will undertake a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul from 18 to 21 June 2012. Talks are planned with the President of the Republic and with the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Family and Social Policies of Turkey.
08/06/2012 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt (Spain, EPP/CD) and Joseph Debono Grech (Malta, SOC), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will visit the country from 12 to 14 June 2012, to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe, in particular as regards the administration of justice, religious tolerance and local and regional democracy.
06/06/2012 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for Russia of the PACE Monitoring Committee, Andi Gross (Switzerland, SOC) and György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD) today expressed their serious concern at the adoption by the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament of a controversial bill designed to increase fines for orchestrating unauthorised demonstrations...
05/06/2012 | Monitoring
While the political climate in Albania is still tense and antagonistic, there is clearly “a more constructive attitude” among all political forces, according to PACE’s monitoring co-rapporteurs for the country Tomáš Jirsa (Czech Republic, EDG) and Grigore Petrenco (Moldova, UEL).
01/06/2012 | Monitoring
Karin Woldseth (Norway, EDG) and Egidijus Vareikis (Lithuania, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Bosnia and Herzegovina will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 3 to 7 June 2012 to assess the implementation of its commitments and obligations as a Council of Europe member state.
29/05/2012 | Monitoring
Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE) and Jana Fischerová (Czech Republic, EDG), who are currently assessing the request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary, will visit Brussels on 30 May for high-level meetings with members of the European Commission and the European Parliament.