PACE Monitors Visit Georgia

Monitors from Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) are visiting Georgia from April 12 to April 16 for fact-finding trip ahead of discussions of August, 2008 war consequences in PACE later this month.

Mátyás Eörsi and David Wilshire, co-rapporteurs from PACE’s monitoring committee on honouring obligations by the Council of Europe member states met with government officials, Parliamentary Chairman Davit Bakradze and civil society representatives on April 12. On Tuesday they are visiting war-affected region of Shida Kartli and on April 14 PACE delegation will travel to breakaway Abkhazia.

PACE has passed three resolutions on consequences of the August war. The recent one in last September was calling on Russia to fulfill its obligations, imposed upon it by PACE’s January, 2009 and October, 2008 resolutions, before the end of 2009.

A draft agenda of PACE session for April 28 also includes a statement by Heidi Tagliavini; she led EU-funded Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (IIFFMCG), which produced its report in September, 2009.

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