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Yerevan / Armenia

PACE Monitoring Committee welcomes Armenia’s successful emergence from crisis, sets out next steps for reform

15/12/2021 | Monitoring

The PACE Monitoring Committee has welcomed the fact that Armenia has “successfully emerged from the serious political crisis triggered by the outcome in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” as well as its pursuit of reforms and the launch of new projects since the change of political leadership in 2018...

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Committee reviews progress of Council of Europe States under monitoring in 2021

15/12/2021 | Monitoring

The Monitoring Committee today adopted its annual report taking stock of its monitoring activities in 2021 and making a series of assessments of the countries under monitoring procedure or engaged in post-monitoring dialogue, as well as of countries that are currently subject to the procedure for...

Baku / Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan: PACE rapporteurs concerned about the state of health of activist Saleh Rustamov

10/12/2021 | Monitoring

The rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Richard Bacon (United Kingdom, EC/DA) have expressed their serious concern about the state of health of Saleh Rustamov, activist of the Azerbaijani...

Tskhinvali / Georgia

PACE co-rapporteurs to make monitoring visit to Georgia

06/12/2021 | Monitoring

Titus Corlăţean (Romania, SOC) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Georgia, will make a fact-finding visit to the country from 8 to 10 December 2021. Discussions will...

Poland Constitional Court decision overruling ECHR

Poland monitors extremely concerned at Polish Constitutional Court decision challenging the supremacy of...

25/11/2021 | Monitoring

The co-rapporteurs for Poland of the Monitoring Committee, Azadeh Rojhan Gustafsson (Sweden, SOC) and Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), have today expressed their deep concern at yesterday’s ruling by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal that Article 6 (1) of the European Convention on Human...

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...