15/01/2010 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 15.01.2010 – Christos Pourgourides (Cyprus, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a fact-finding visit to Athens on 18 and 19 January as part of the preparation of his report on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.
The judgments considered by Mr Pourgourides cover those not fully implemented more than five years after final delivery, or raising important implementation issues, particularly where they concern human rights violations of extreme gravity.
During his visit, Mr Pourgourides is expected to meet the President of Parliament, the President of the Court of Cassation, the General Prosecutor, the President of the Council of State, representatives of the Justice, Interior and Environment Ministries, as well as the members of the Greek delegation to PACE.
This is the fourth, after Bulgaria, Italy and Ukraine, in a series of visits intended to bring parliamentary pressure to bear on states where the execution of the Court’s judgments meets with delays or difficulties. Mr Pourgourides will shortly go to Moldova, Romania, the Russian Federation and Turkey.