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.
18/07/2011 | Monitoring
John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC) and Axel Fischer (Germany, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 19 to 21 July. In Yerevan they are due to discuss the latest developments regarding the normalisation of the political environment, as well as the reform programme started by the authorities, in particular election reform ahead of the 2012 parliamentary elections.
12/07/2011 | Monitoring
György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD) and Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of the Russian Federation, will make a fact-finding visit to Moscow on 13-14 July to discuss with Duma representatives the road-map for fulfilment of Russia’s obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe.
11/07/2011 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Monitoring Committee for Georgia, Michael Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC), today hailed the adoption of the amendments to the civil code that allows for other faiths and denominations than the Georgian Orthodox Church to be registered as legal entities of public law.
04/07/2011 | Monitoring
Kerstin Lundgren (Sweden, ALDE) and Jana Fischerová (Czech Republic, EDG), PACE co-rapporteurs who have been appointed to assess the request for the opening of a monitoring procedure in respect of Hungary, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 6 to 8 July. A January 2011 motion, signed by 24 members of the Assembly, raised “serious concern” about recent developments in Hungary in four areas related to human rights, the rule of law and the functioning of democratic institutions.
01/07/2011 | Monitoring
Josette Durrieu (France, SOC), PACE rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, voiced her concern about the situation in the country following the refusal of 170 opposition MPs belonging to the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) to take the oath at the inaugural sitting of parliament.
24/06/2011 | Monitoring
In an information note declassified by PACE Monitoring Committee on 21 June 2011, the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Montenegro, Jean-Charles Gardetto (Monaco, EPP/CD) and Serhiy Holovaty (Ukraine, ALDE), welcomed Montenegro’s willingness to honour its commitments and obligations and meet the requirements of the European Union in the field of human rights, the rule of law and democracy in order to begin the EU accession negotiation process.