STRASBOURG, October 2 (RIA Novosti), Daria Chernyshova - Parliamentary Assembly of the council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution on Thursday, introducing a periodic issue-based monitoring across countries, including those which have never been subject to monitoring or post-monitoring procedures.
"With a view to ensuring compliance by all Council of Europe member States with their obligations, including those which are not subject to specific monitoring procedures, the Assembly invites the Monitoring Committee to introduce a periodic overview of groups of countries in accordance with its internal working methods, and to launch issue-based, cross-country monitoring in close co-operation with the relevant Assembly committees as a complementary measure to the country-by-country monitoring," the resolution adopted on Thursday says.
PACE currently monitors ten countries, including Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Montenegro, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine. Another four countries - Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey and Monaco - are engaged in post-monitoring dialogue.
