The Moldovan politicians and experts are skeptical about Moldova’s chances of being taken out of the Council of Europe’s monitoring in the near future. The reasons of the monitoring, the achievements and failures of Moldova were discussed at Friday’s meeting of the Investigative Journalists Club organized by the Investigative Journalism Center, Info-Prim Neo reports. Lilia Snegureac, the head of the Information Bureau of the Council of European in Moldova, said that the monitoring will continue until Moldova stops pretending to be implementing reforms. “We must carry out the reforms asked by the CE because they are first of all for us and aim to improve our living,” Lilia Snegureac said. She considers that the monitoring is “very healthy” because it contributes to an improved legislative framework, even if such a long monitoring is shameful. Valeriu Cosarciuc, MP on behalf of the Moldova Noastra Alliance Party and member of Moldova’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said that Moldova continues to be monitored because it does not honor its obligations. The four PACE resolutions on Moldova of 2002-2007 point to the same unfulfilled commitments. The resolutions of 2005 and 2007 say that Moldova lags behind in implementing reforms in the electoral sector. At its meetings in April and July this year, PACE expressed its concern about the latest amendments to the electoral legislation that raise the electoral threshold, ban the parties from forming electoral blocks and the owners of dual nationality from holding public posts. The MP said that it is rather improbable that the present government will return to these laws, if only symbolically, under foreign pressure. MP Igor Klipii, vice president of the Democratic Party of Moldova, stated that as long as Moldova exists, it will be monitored. According to the MP, the fact that Moldova has been monitored for 12 years is its litmus paper. “We show that we are unable to effectively and coherently work as a state. The most serious thing is that the Moldova society is in question because a state appears there where the society is capable of organizing itself”. Igor Klipii considers that if Moldova is deprived of foreign support, it will disappear as state. Vitalie Nagacevschi, the president of the Jurists for Human Rights organization, considers that Moldova will be monitored as long as it is governed by Communists. On the one hand, the continuous monitoring is a negative point because it shows that the democratic processes in Moldova go in the wrong direction. On the other hand, the monitoring is beneficial because it is a foreign force that hinders the establishment of a tyranny similar to Hussein’s regime, the jurist said. The division head at the Foreign Ministry Tatiana Parvu, who was invited to the press club, said that Moldova does not have so many problems and the existing problems are going to be solved. She agreed that the monitoring damages Moldova’s reputation. She stressed that 11 countries are now under the CE’s monitoring and three countries, including the EU member Bulgaria, are in the post-monitoring period. “During the last few years, we aimed to shift to post-monitoring. As the CE rapporteurs and experts said, the most serious exam will be taken in the electoral period, when Moldova will show if it can shift to post-monitoring,” Tatiana Parvu said. Moldova has been monitored by the Council of Europe since 1995, when it became a CE member.