30/10/2009 Monitoring
Strasbourg, 30.10.2009 – Jaakko Laakso (Finland, UEL) and David Wilshire (United Kingdom, EDG), co-rapporteurs for Albania of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be conducting a fact-finding visit to the country from 3 to 5 November to take stock of the honouring of obligations and commitments by Albania vis-à-vis the Council of Europe. This visit will enable them to finalise a report which will be debated at the January plenary session of PACE (25-29 January 2010).
Interviews are scheduled with the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of Parliament, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Justice, and the President of the Constitutional Court. The co-rapporteurs will also be meeting with the mayors of several towns and cities, including Tirana and Shkoder, and representatives of the Montenegrin minority. Lastly, they will be holding discussions with representatives of the Directorate General of Prisons, during a visit to a prison.