Parliamentary Assembly Assemblée parlementaire

Doc. 10841
21 February 2006

Human rights violations in the Chechen Republic

Written question No. 485 to the Committee of Ministers
presented by Mr Jurgens

      Considering that human rights violations in the Chechen Republic, were again debated at the January 2006 session (Resolution 1479 (2006), Recommendation 1733 (2006)), highlighting the responsibility of the Committee of Ministers and condemning its repeated failure to act, and that in view of the very serious situation facing the Russian Federation in Chechnya, it is quite incomprehensible and inadmissible that the Committee of Ministers should not take a more active stand and should, on the contrary, choose not to monitor the situation regularly,

      Mr. Jurgen asks the Committee of Ministers,

      Firstly, whether the Committee of Ministers can take steps to ensure that Assembly Recommendation 1710 (2005) on the “Honouring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation”, in which the Assembly asks the Committee of Ministers to “ensure that the discussion of the human rights crisis in and around Chechnya remains a regular item on the agenda (of the Committee of Ministers and Ministers’ Deputies), and, in particular, ensure that monitoring of the human rights situation (…) continues, inter alia, under the auspices of the Secretary General, and that the results of such monitoring are published”, at long last receives a reply from the Committee of Ministers, and

      secondly, what measures does the Committee of Ministers intend to take to ensure that Assembly recommendations are acted on by the executive body.

Signed :1

JURGENS, Erik, Netherlands, SOC

SOC: Socialist Group
EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party
ALDE: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
EDG: European Democratic Group
UEL: Group of the Unified European Left
NR: not registered in a group