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PACE monitors make fact-finding visit to Georgia

24/03/2023 | Monitoring

Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 27 to 29 March 2023. The visit will focus on recent developments...

San Marino: PACE committee encourages the authorities to strengthen the effectiveness of direct democracy

22/03/2023 | Monitoring

The PACE Monitoring Committee today lauded San Marino for its “wide and impressive range of institutional consultation mechanisms and instruments of direct democracy” while expressing concern about the numerous reports that indicate that these consultation mechanisms are “not always used as...

Co-rapporteurs report severe obstruction of Lachin Corridor during visit to Armenia

21/03/2023 | Monitoring

In a declassified information note, the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), today shared their findings with the PACE Monitoring Committee following their visit to Armenia on 17-19 February. The purpose of their visit was...

Poland: PACE monitor urges all political parties to set aside narrow party interest and address the rule of...

17/03/2023 | Monitoring

Ending a three-day visit to Warsaw, one of the two co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Poland, Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), has called on all political parties to set aside narrow party political interest in order to overcome...

PACE rapporteur to make monitoring visit to Poland

09/03/2023 | Monitoring

Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), one of the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Poland, will make a fact-finding visit to Warsaw from 13 to 15 March. This visit will mainly focus on judicial reforms, the independence of the...

PACE Georgia monitors deeply concerned by first reading adoption of Transparency of Foreign Influence law

08/03/2023 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), have expressed their deep concern at the adoption at first reading by the Georgian Parliament of the controversial law on...

The situation in the Lachin corridor requires immediate action, PACE monitors for Armenia say

24/02/2023 | Monitoring

Following their visit to Armenia on 17-19th of February to assess the situation on the border with Azerbaijan and at the entrance of the Lachin Corridor, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC...

PACE co-rapporteurs to make monitoring visit to Armenia

15/02/2023 | Monitoring

Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 17 to 20 February 2023. In Yerevan, Mr...

PACE monitors call on Azerbaijan authorities to immediately release Bakhtiyar Hajiyev

13/02/2023 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), have expressed profound concern over the continuing detention of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a well-known...

Türkiye: information note by the co-rapporteurs following their fact-finding visit

31/01/2023 | Monitoring

In a declassified information note, the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee for Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/AD) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), confirmed their readiness to continue a constructive dialogue with the Turkish authorities following their visit to the country...

PACE co-rapporteurs make periodic review visit to France

27/01/2023 | Monitoring

Fiona O'Loughlin (Ireland, ALDE) and Yelizaveta Yasko (Ukraine, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the periodic review on France, will carry out a fact-finding visit to Paris on 30-31 January, to assess the honouring of membership obligations...

PACE monitors for Türkiye meet Osman Kavala

13/01/2023 | Monitoring

Following a meeting with Osman Kavala at the Silivri prison today, the PACE rapporteurs for the monitoring of Türkiye, John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Boriss Cilevičs (Latvia, SOC), have again called on the Turkish authorities to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human...