Secretariat of the Assembly

The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg on 4 April 2000, with Mr Mota Amaral in the Chair:

-           Reform of the institutions in Ukraine (co-rapporteurs: Mrs Severinsen, Denmark, LDR, and Mrs Wohlwend, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD): took position on amendments to the draft recommendation on the reform of the institutions in Ukraine, in view of the debate to be held on 5 April 2000;

-           “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (co-rapporteurs: MM. Dumitrescu, Romania, SOC and Sinka, Latvia, EDG): took position on amendments to the draft recommendation on the honouring of obligations and commitments of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”;

-             Chechnya (rapporteur for opinion: Mr Moreels, Belgium, EPP/CD): examined and approved a draft opinion on the report presented by the Political Affairs Committee (rapporteur: Lord Judd, United Kingdom, SOC) and appointed Mr Gross (Switzerland, SOC) to present it, in Mr Moreels’ absence, to the Assembly during the debate to be held on 6 April 2000;

-           Turkey (co-rapporteurs: MM. Bársony, Hungary, SOC and Zierer, Germany, EPP/CD): heard a statement on the co-rapporteurs fact-finding visit to the country (26-30 March 2000) and invited them to submit a written report at a next meeting;

-            Croatia (co-rapporteurs: M. Jaskiernia, Poland, SOC and Ms Stoyanova, Bulgaria, EPP/CD): took note of the programme of the visit of the co-rapporteurs to the country from 16 to 19 April 2000;

-            Georgia (co-rapporteurs: MM. Eörsi, Hungary, LDR and Diana, Italy, EPP/CD): authorised its co-rapporteurs to pay a fact-finding visit to the country from 10 to 13 May 2000;

-           decided to hold its next meeting in Paris on 4 May 2000.

Egbert Ausems, Guy Dufour, Despina Chatzivassiliou, Marine Trévisan