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Monitoring visit by PACE co-rapporteurs to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Strasbourg, 09.04.2010 – Kimmo Sasi (Finland, EPP/CD) and Karin Woldseth (Norway, EDG), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for monitoring the honouring of obligations and commitments by Bosnia and Herzegovina, will make a fact-finding visit to Sarajevo on 12-13 April.

During this visit, they will examine the progress of constitutional reform and the execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Sejdic and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the light of the 17 March decision of the PACE Monitoring Committee to authorise the Chair of the committee to request a debate under urgent procedure on this issue during the April part-session of the Assembly, depending on the developments in the country.

The co-rapporteurs are to meet, among others, the Speakers of both Chambers of Parliament, the Minister of Justice, the leaders of all parliamentary groups as well as the representatives of international organisations.
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A press conference is scheduled on Tuesday 13 April at 2 p.m. (in the Parliament building).
 
PACE Resolution 1701 (2010) on the functioning of democratic institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina
 
PACE contact: Artemy Karpenko, mobile: +33 (0)6 71 15 29 11.