29/03/2012 Monitoring
Strasbourg, 29.03.2012 - Mailis Reps (Estonia, ALDE) and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin (Sweden, EPP/CD), co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Ukraine by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), today met in prison former Ukrainian Minister of the Interior Yuriy Lutsenko.
Noting the concerns about his health, the co-rapporteurs called on the authorities to provide all necessary expertise to properly diagnose and treat his illness.
The co-rapporteurs expressed their will to continue searching for a solution for the former government members who have been detained and whose trials have been a matter of great concern for the Parliamentary Assembly, as expressed in Resolution 1862 (2012) on “the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine”, passed in January.
The co-rapporteurs will give a press conference today, Thursday 29 March, at 5.30p.m., at Ukrinform, 8/16 B Khmelnytskoho Street, Kyiv.