16/12/2011 | Monitoring
Meeting in Paris on 15 December, PACE Monitoring Committee reminded Bosnia and Herzegovina that it is time to honour its commitments to the Council of Europe. On the basis of a report by Jean-Claude Mignon (France, EPP/CD) and Karin Woldseth (Norway, EDG), the committee adopted a draft resolution once again calling upon the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the key political stakeholders to stop obstructionism and work constructively at the level of state institutions.
16/12/2011 | Monitoring
PACE Monitoring Committee has called for charges against former government members in Ukraine, including former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, to be dropped. Former Interior Minister Jurij Lutsenko and former Defence Minister Valeriy Ivashenko should be released at once for humanitarian reasons because of their rapidly deteriorating health, the committee said.
15/12/2011 | Monitoring
Luca Volontè (Italy, EPP/CD), PACE rapporteur on post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, will make a fact-finding visit to that country on 19-21 December 2011. During his visit, discussions are scheduled with the President of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Interior and Justice, as well as meetings with the judicial authorities.
08/12/2011 | Monitoring
“The right to peacefully demonstrate is one of the basic rights of people in any democratic state, and is part of freedom of expression and assembly. There is no justification for the arrest and detention of hundreds of people just because they have gathered to protest calmly. On the contrary, they have the same right to police protection as those who express their support for the winning party,” said PACE's co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Russia, Andi Gross (Switzerland, SOC) and György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD).
07/12/2011 | Monitoring
PACE co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC) and Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE), today expressed their concern at the presence of Russian polling stations in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
06/12/2011 | Monitoring
Returning from their fact-finding visit to Moldova (28 November-1st December 2011), PACE co-rapporteurs Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Piotr Wach (Poland, EPP/CD) welcomed the decision of the Moldovan parliament to set the date of the election of the President on 16 December 2011.
29/11/2011 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Piotr Wach (Poland, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the honouring of Moldova’s obligations and commitments, started a fact-finding visit to Chisinau yesterday afternoon until 1 December. They will be especially interested in the current political situation, the reform of justice, the measures taken to combat corruption and organised crime.
15/11/2011 | Monitoring
PACE Monitoring co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC) today underscored that they did not recognize the legitimacy of the elections that were recently conducted in South Ossetia and reiterated their support for the territorial integrity of Georgia."The unilateral declaration of independence of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is illegitimate under international law and therefore no legal or constitutional basis for these elections exists" they declared.
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.