23/05/2008 | Monitoring
PACE Monitoring Committee is due to approve a draft report on “the functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan” on Tuesday 27 May 2008 during its meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. “This report will lay out a road map for the authorities ahead of the October Presidential election,” said co-rapporteurs Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD) and Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC), speaking on the eve of the meeting.
23/05/2008 | Monitoring
The members of PACE Monitoring Committee will meet in Kyiv the Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament and the Minister of Justice, as well as the heads of the opposition parties and ruling coalition parties.
15/05/2008 | Monitoring
Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD) and Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of the honouring of obligations and commitments by Azerbaijan, will be undertaking a fact-finding visit to Baku from 18 to 20 May to assist the authorities in preparing the Presidential election of 15 October 2008 in line with the Council of Europe’s standards.
23/04/2008 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteurs from the PACE Monitoring Committee, Luc Van den Brande (Belgium, EPP/CD) and Theodoros Pangalos (Greece, SOC), were encouraged by recent reforms initiated by the Russian authorities and their statements of intent to address some of the outstanding concerns of the Assembly. In their view there is now a window of opportunity for Russia to fulfil a number of commitments to the Council of Europe.
17/04/2008 | Monitoring
Luc Van den Brande (Belgium, EPP/CD) and Theodoros Pangalos (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs on Russia for PACE Monitoring Committee, will make a fact-finding visit to Moscow from 20 to 23 April to take stock of Russia’s compliance with its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe, for a forthcoming report.
16/04/2008 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of the Assembly, meeting yesterday in Strasbourg on the fringe of PACE's Spring Session, decided to declassify the information note of the co-rapporteurs on Georgia, Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, ALDE ) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC), on their information visit to Tbilisi on 26 and 27 March 2008.
25/03/2008 | Monitoring
Mátyás Eörsi, (Hungary, ALDE) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC), co-rapporteurs for PACE Monitoring Committee will make a fact-finding visit to Tbilisi on 26-27 March, as part of the monitoring of Georgia’s obligations and commitments. They will hold talks with the President, Prime Minister, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice and the Interior, Speaker of the Parliament, President of the Supreme Court, and are also expected to meet representatives of the opposition, the media and NGOs.
20/03/2008 | Monitoring
At its meeting in Paris on Tuesday, PACE Monitoring Committee decided to declassify an information note on the fact-finding visit to Azerbaijan by its two co-rapporteurs Andres Herkel (Estonia, EPP/CD) and Evguenia Jivkova (Bulgaria, SOC).
18/03/2008 | Monitoring
Meeting in Paris on 18 March 2008, the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) expressed its deep concern about the arrest of more than one hundred people in Armenia and the conditions in which such arrests took place, following the events of 1 March...
18/03/2008 | Monitoring
PACE Monitoring Committee, meeting in Paris today, decided to declassify an information note by the Co-rapporteurs on Ukraine, Hanne Severinsen (Denmark, ALDE)* and Renate Wohlwend (Liechtenstein, EPP/CD) on their recent fact-finding visit to Ukraine.
18/03/2008 | Monitoring
At its meeting in Paris today, PACE Monitoring Committee decided to declassify the draft report on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Serbia. The report has not yet been approved by the committee and therefore only reflects the postion of the co-rapporteurs Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC) and Charles Goerens (Luxembourg, ALDE).
10/03/2008 | Monitoring
John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), PACE rapporteur on the Armenian elections, today welcomed the lifting of two provisions of the State of Emergency declaration by the Armenian authorities following his visit to Armenia last week. “I especially welcome the lifting of the suspension of the activities of political parties and NGOs, which I specifically called for during my visit. I now call upon the authorities to lift the remaining provisions of the declaration of the State of Emergency, especially those that limit the freedom of the media.