PACE rapporteurs commend Moldovan authorities
The governing Alliance for European Integration's efforts to govern the country as efficiently as only possible in the conditions of an institutional collapse were praised by the Josette Durrieu (France, SOC) and Egidijus Vareikis (Lithuania, EPP/CD), the PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Moldova's obligations and commitments, stated MP Anna Gutu (L), Head of the Republic of Moldova's permanent delegation to the PACE.
The Parliament's press service wrote in its news release today that during the hearing of the information prepared by the Committee on the Honoring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (CE Monitoring Committee), rapporteur Josette Durrieu repeated 3 times the word "merit", speaking of the governing coalition's reforms "on the path of progress". The report on democratic institutions functioning in Moldova will be presented officially at the PACE Session in September.
Anna Gutu drew the commission's attention to the fact that the opposition Communist Party is continuing its boycott of Parliament plenary sittings. She also touched on the initiatives on Constitution amending, which she believes may be put to the vote in parliament in November 2010.
PACE deputy Michael Hancock of Great Britain expressed surprise that the Moldovan Communist opposition, by boycotting the parliament meetings, are refusing to fulfill their constitutional duty and the will of their voters. He named such behaviour as strange and inadmissible in a democratic state.
In a private conversation with the Moldovan delegation members, Josette Durrieu stressed the need to clear out those responsible for sending to the Council of Europe the 'bobtailed' translation of the Moldovan Constitution text, and who concretely made such cutdown translations into English and French. She said such attitude to translating fundamental documents undermines the European organizations' trust in Moldova.
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