10/10/2012 President
Strasbourg, 10.10.2012 - “Our institutional interaction is, in fact, our forte,” said Jean-Claude Mignon, the PACE President, during an exchange of views with the Ministers’ Deputies today in Strasbourg. He advocated increasing the synergy between the Organisation’s two statutory organs in the monitoring field.
“Our ‘political monitoring’ conducted by the Monitoring Committee already takes account of the work of such specific monitoring mechanisms as the CPT, GRECO, ECRI and MONEYVAL. The question is how we are to further reinforce our co-operation in this field, particularly by creating new synergies between the Monitoring Committee, the specific monitoring mechanisms and the co-operation programmes.” He also informed the Deputies that the PACE Presidential Committee had agreed on the need systematically to accompany draft resolutions on the honouring of commitments with draft recommendations.
Among the other subjects mentioned by the President were his forthcoming visits to Tunisia and Morocco, the World Forum for Democracy, the Youth Assembly and several subjects discussed at the last parliamentary session – Syria, the commitments and obligations of the Russian Federation, the Safarov case, the definition of a “political prisoner”, human rights, foreign policy, and the code of conduct for PACE members.