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Belgrade, Serbia, Mladic mural

PACE rapporteurs urge Serbian authorities to remove the Ratko Mladić mural in Belgrade and take strong...

19/11/2021 | Monitoring

Piero Fassino (Italy, SOC) and Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA), PACE rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, have urged the Serbian authorities to take unequivocal action against the glorification of convicted war criminals and to remove, without delay, a mural in Belgrade...

Yerevan, Armenia
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Armenia has emerged successfully from a serious political crisis, say PACE monitors

09/11/2021 | Monitoring

“Armenia has emerged successfully from the serious political crisis caused by its defeat in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which is in itself a real success,” said Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC) and Boriana Åberg (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly...

Malta, Parliament
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Malta: monitors welcome progress, but call for further systemic reforms to strengthen checks and balances...

02/11/2021 | Monitoring

Following a visit to Malta from 25 to 27 October, the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for a “periodic review” of the country, George Loukaides (Cyprus, UEL) and Bernard Fournier (France, EPP/CD), have welcomed the reforms...

Yerevan / Armenia

PACE co-rapporteurs to make monitoring visit to Armenia

29/10/2021 | 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 3 to 5 November 2021. Discussions will...

Chisinau, Republic of Moldova - Presidential Palace
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Republic of Moldova: the PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs welcome the authorities’ determined action to...

20/10/2021 | Monitoring

At the end of a fact-finding visit to the Republic of Moldova (12-15 October), the monitoring co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (Latvia, EPP/CD) and Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), welcomed the determination of the Moldovan...

Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (Latvia, EPP/CD) and Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), in Chisinau

PACE rapporteurs congratulate the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova for adopting the ratification law...

14/10/2021 | Monitoring

In Chisinau, where they are currently carrying out a fact-finding visit, the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Moldova, Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (Latvia, EPP/CD) and Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), made the following statement...

Chisinau, Republic of Moldova - Presidential Palace
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PACE co-rapporteurs to make monitoring visit to the Republic of Moldova

11/10/2021 | Monitoring

Inese Lībiņa-Egnere (Latvia, EPP/CD) and Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by the Republic of Moldova, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 13 to 15...

Ukraine Constitutional Court

PACE Ukraine monitors: marked progress in many areas, but considerable challenges remain

09/07/2021 | Monitoring

Following a visit to Kyiv from 5 to 7 July 2021, the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine have welcomed the marked progress made on reforms in many crucial areas in the country, but emphasised that considerable challenges remain. In general, they underscored that the many reforms...

Portal / Kyiv / Ukraine

Monitoring visit by PACE co-rapporteurs to Ukraine

07/07/2021 | Monitoring

Alfred Heer (Switzerland, ALDE) and Birgir Thórarinsson, (Iceland, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine are currently making a fact-finding visit to to this country to further assess the honouring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. They have already...

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu

PACE Turkey monitors welcome the release of opposition MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu

07/07/2021 | Monitoring

The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Thomas Hammarberg (Sweden, SOC) and John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA), have welcomed the release of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, an MP from the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), following a ruling of the Constitutional Court on 1st...

State Duma, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Visit of PACE rapporteurs to Russia: new impetus to political dialogue

02/07/2021 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Russia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Ria Oomen-Ruijten (Netherlands, EPP/CD), carried out a fact-finding visit to Moscow from 28 to 30 June 2021 in the framework of the preparation of their report to be submitted to the Assembly in 2022. They met the...

The Parliament of Serbia - Belgrade
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PACE monitors for Serbia welcome the launch of a constitutional revision process

14/06/2021 | Monitoring

PACE monitoring co-rapporteurs for Serbia Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA) and Piero Fassino (Italy, SOC) have welcomed the decision of the Serbian parliament, at the initiative of the Serbian government, to amend the constitution with a view to de-politicising the judiciary. “On 7...