12/05/2015 | Monitoring
“I deeply regret the deaths and injuries due to armed clashes that have occurred in the last few days in ‘the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’, on its border with Kosovo”, today said Robert Walter.
08/05/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski are deeply concerned by the sentencing of opposition leader Faraj Kerimli, to six and a half years of prison. They called on the authorities to develop an environment favourable to political pluralism.
08/05/2015 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu, PACE rapporteur on post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, took stock of the latest developments in the country, at the end of a fact-finding visit to Istanbul, Şanlıurfa and Ankara (30 April-4 May).
30/04/2015 | Monitoring
"We believe that all the possibilities of finding a way out of the crisis have not yet been exhausted. We are convinced that political dialogue and respect for the rule of law should go hand-in-hand," said PACE delegation.
29/04/2015 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu will make a fact-finding visit to Istanbul, Şanliurfa and Ankara in the context of post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, so as to evaluate the country's progress with regard to outstanding questions.
28/04/2015 | Monitoring
A delegation of the PACE Monitoring Committee, composed of Stefan Schennach, Robert Walter and Andreas Gross, will conduct a fact-finding to “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, to discuss the current political crisis.
24/04/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski have expressed their deep disappointment at the sentence of seven-and-a-half years in prison handed to the lawyer and human rights defender Intigam Aliyev.
23/04/2015 | Monitoring
A sub-committee of the existing Monitoring Committee is to be created to deal with “conflicts between Council of Europe member states”, where active armed conflict is at an end, but no peace treaty has been signed.
17/04/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski have expressed their concern at the sentence passed on Rasul Jafarov. "Such a long sentence against a human rights defender could be perceived as disproportionate,” they said.
09/04/2015 | Monitoring
Pedro Agramunt and Tadeusz Iwinski have expressed their concern at the refusal by the Azerbaijani authorities to allow researcher Giorgi Gogia to enter the country in order to perform his trial monitoring work.
31/03/2015 | Monitoring
Following their visit to Kyiv, the co-rapporteurs for Ukraine, Mailis Reps and Jean-Claude Mignon have encouraged the authorities to continue and further the important reforms that are needed for the country.
24/03/2015 | Monitoring
According to Michael Aastrup Jensen and Boriss Cilevics, the agreement violates international law and is “another example of the creeping annexation of the Georgian region of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation”.