CE SECRETARY GENERAL SENDS LETTERS TO FOREIGN MINISTERS OF 37 CE
MEMBER STATES, INCLUDING ARMENIA
STRASBOURG, MARCH 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The Secreatry General of the
Council of Europe (CE) Terry Davis sent letters to the foreign
ministers of the 37 CE member states, reminding, in the context of
secret arrests and transportation of prisoners in Europe, about
honoring the commitments of the CE member states within the framework
of the European Convention of Human Rights.
These countries are Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania,
Luxemburg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, “the Former Republic of Macedonia Jugoslavia”, Turkey, Ukraine
and the UK. The letter to Albania was sent on February 22.
According to the CE press service in Armenia, the governments of the
above mentioned countries were requested to make additions to or
explain the responses given during the November 21, 2005 survey. The
deadline for providing answers is April 7.