07/07/2009 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 07.07.2009 - Christos Pourgourides (Cyprus, EPP/CD), who is currently preparing a report on the implementation of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), is to visit Ukraine from 8 to 9 July 2009, where he is due to meet inter alia the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Minister of Justice, the acting Minister of Finance, the President of the Supreme Court and Prosecutor General.
This will be the second of a series of visits, which began with a visit to Bulgaria in May 2009, designed to bring parliamentary pressure to bear on those states where implementation of the judgements of the Court is delayed or encounters difficulties. The rapporteur will later travel to Greece, Italy, Moldova, Romania, the Russian Federation and Turkey.