Honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia

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24 October 2001

Honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia

Recommendation 1533 (2001)

Interim reply from the Committee of Ministers

adopted at the 769^th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies (17 October 2001)

1. The Committee of Ministers wishes to inform the Assembly that, at its 769^th meeting, in order to prepare a substantial reply to Parliamentary Assembly’s Recommendation 1533 (2001), it requested the Secretary General to send, at the earliest opportunity, a Secretariat mission to Georgia, by virtue of paragraph 4 of the 1994 Declaration on compliance with commitments accepted by member States, with a view to assisting the Georgian authorities to fulfil their remaining commitments and to providing relevant information to the Committee of Ministers.

2. The Committee of Ministers intends to adopt its final reply to Recommendation 1533 (2001), if possible, before the January 2002 part-session of the Assembly on the basis inter alia of the results of the Secretariat mission to Georgia.