PACE lists actions it expects from CoE members
BAKU – A Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) report approved on Friday lists actions it expects from fourteen member states in order to meet their Council of Europe obligations and commitments, and provides a comparative analysis of how eleven others are doing according to assessments from different parts of the Organisation made over the last three years.
The fourteen countries dealt with in the annual report by PACE’s Monitoring Committee are Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine (subject to the Assembly’s monitoring procedure) and Bulgaria, Monaco, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and Turkey (in "post-monitoring dialogue" with the Assembly).
Making an overall assessment of the situation in its resolution, based on a report by Dick Marty, the Assembly points to "serious shortcomings in electoral processes", as well as a lack of parliamentary dialogue and serious constitutional problems that prevent further progress.
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