MOSCOW, July 7 (RIA Novosti, Christina Rodriguez) - A senior Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe official said a draft report on the economic situation in Russia would be completed and submitted to PACE in January 2006.
Kimmo Sasi, who is responsible for drafting the report, said he hoped it would be completed by a regular meeting of the PACE economic commission in January 2006.
Currently on his first visit to Russia, Sasi said his report was designed to identify ways to consolidate Russia's economic growth. He said Russia was a huge market of great interest for all the Council of Europe countries and that the interest was reciprocal.
Asked why PACE had followed developments in Russia so closely (October 2004 saw a report on Chechnya, June 2005 a report on monitoring Russia's commitments to the Council of Europe), Sasi said Russia was the council's largest member, and the close attention was only natural.
Sasi said the report would be heard at the PACE summer session in June 2006, and a resolution on it would be adopted then.
