FOR THE ATTENTION OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE HONOURING OF OBLIGATIONS AND COMMITMENTS BY MEMBER STATES

 

Secretariat of the Assembly

 

Synopsis N° 2000/155

25 October 2000

 

            The Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee), meeting in Tallinn on 24 October 2000 with Mr Mota Amaral in the Chair:

-           post-monitoring dialogue: considered a memorandum prepared by the Chairman of the committee and asked him to bring it up to date in the light of discussion for the next meeting;

-            Estonia: considered a memorandum submitted by the Chairman on the post-monitoring dialogue with Estonia and asked him to bring it up to date in the light of discussion for approval at its next meeting;

-           held exchanges of views with:

            . Mr T. Kelam, Deputy Speaker of the Riigikogu (Parliament);

            . Mrs K. Saks, Minister of Ethnic Affairs;

            . Mr P. Näks, Deputy Secretary General on prisons;

            . Mrs E. Rebane, Deputy Director of Citizenship and Migration Board;

            . Mr A. Laius, Jaan Tônisson Institute ;

            . Mr A. Semjonov, Legal Information Centre for Human Rights;

            . Mrs M. Haruoja, Estonian Institute of Human Rights;

-                  Russia (co-rapporteurs: Mr Atkinson, United Kingdom, EDG, and Mr Bindig, Germany, SOC): authorised the co-rapporteurs to make a fact-finding visit to the country at the beginning of  2001;

-           left it to the Chair to fix the date of the next meeting in Paris in December 2000.

 

Egbert Ausems, Guy Dufour