PACE to examine a new report for monitoring Moldova in October
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Josette Durrieu and Egidijus Vareikis, will visit Chisinau in September, after updating the information and observations of the developments of the current situation in Moldova. Accordingly, PACE will examine a new report in October, said MP Vlad Cubreacov, member of the parliamentary delegation to PACE, at a public debate on Wednesday, September 5.
Cubreacov also stated that the procedure of monitoring is not humiliating for Moldova, since it is a matter of assistance and support; however the country is essentially interested in finishing this procedure as soon as possible. Nevertheless, as long as the reality doesn’t correspond to the criteria and requirements of the Strasbourg Organization, Moldova will not be able to overcome the monitoring, said Cubreacov.
Referring to the importance of honouring the obligations assumed in front of the Council of Europe, the deputy mentioned that he doesn’t know any case in which a state became a member of European Union without the monitoring process of CoE being finished.
Moldova joined the CoE in 1995, the first ex-soviet state to do so. The special representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Chisinau, Vladimir Ristovski, told Info-Prim Neo in an interview that “A lot of efforts have been done Europe to become a common home for the citizens of Moldova. However, the consolidation of the democratic transition has not been finished”.