28/10/2011 | Monitoring
Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD) and Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE), PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Ukraine, will make a fact-finding visit to the country on 2-4 November 2011. They are due to meet, in particular, the President of the Republic, the Speaker of Parliament, the Ministers of the Interior and of Education and leaders of political parties.
11/10/2011 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs for PACE's monitoring of Ukraine, Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), have expressed their concern and disappointment at the sentence passed on Yulia Tymoshenko today. “This is an example of the criminalisation of political decision-taking,” the co-rapporteurs said.
10/10/2011 | Monitoring
Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC) and Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE), PACE co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to that country from 11 to 14 October.
07/10/2011 | Monitoring
PACE Monitoring Committee held an exchange of views with the Danish Helsinki Committee on the findings contained in its monitoring report of the trials against four former government members in Ukraine. Following this exchange of views the committee expressed its concern regarding the criminal prosecution of former government members.
27/09/2011 | Monitoring
“We welcome Serbia's recent achievements and the adoption of an impressive number of laws that bring Serbia closer to European standards,” said PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs Davit Harutyunyan (Armenia, EDG) and Indrek Saar (Estonia, SOC), at the end of a visit to Serbia from 19-22 September 2011.
16/09/2011 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, Davit Harutyunyan (Armenia, EDG) and Indrek Saar (Estonia, SOC), are to visit Belgrade from 19 to 22 September 2011 to assess different aspects of Serbia’s fulfilment of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. The main topics for discussion include the latest political developments, reform of the judiciary and the situation of the media, as well as asylum-seekers, refugees and Roma.
16/09/2011 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Karin S. Woldseth (Norway, EDG), is to visit Sarajevo and Mostar from 19 to 23 September 2011 to assess different aspects of the country’s fulfillment of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. The main topics for discussion include the formation of the State level government, implementation of the Sejdic and Finci judgment, and constitutional reform.
16/09/2011 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine, Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), are to visit Kyiv and the Crimea from 19 to 23 September 2011 to assess different aspects of Ukraine’s fulfillment of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. In Kyiv (20-21 September), the main topics for discussion include electoral reform and reform of the criminal justice system, criminal investigations into opposition representatives, and minority issues.
14/09/2011 | Monitoring
“We welcome the return of the opposition to the parliament. It is now very important that all political parties constructively work in the legislative process and adopt the reforms that are needed for Albania, including for it to start the accession negotiations with the EU”, according to Tomáš Jirsa (Czech Republic, EDG) and Grigore Petrenco (Moldova, UEL), co-rapporteurs of PACE Monitoring Committee for Albania say in an information note made public today.
08/09/2011 | Monitoring
“The outcome of the latest general amnesty in Armenia, the renewed impetus to investigate the 10 deaths during the March 2008 events, and the resulting start of a constructive dialogue between the opposition and ruling coalition mean that the chapter on the March 2008 events can finally be considered closed”, today said PACE Monitoring Committee.
11/08/2011 | Monitoring
Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine by the PACE, have expressed concern at the ongoing detention of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. “Her detention, ostensibly for contempt of court, strengthens the perception of the political nature of the charges against her,” said the two rapporteurs.
21/07/2011 | Monitoring
At the end of a monitoring visit to Yerevan, the PACE co-rapporteur for Armenia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Axel Fischer (Germany, EPP/CD), has welcomed the evolving dialogue between the ruling coalition in the National Assembly and the extra-parliamentary opposition party, the Armenian National Congress. Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to the country (19-21 July), Mr Fischer said he hoped this would go hand in hand with a similar constructive dialogue between the ruling coalition and parliamentary opposition in the National Assembly.