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Russia, PACE Ready to Compromise on Protocol 14
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, hosted yesterday a meeting of PACE commission on human rights. The Protocol No. 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights that Russia hasn’t ratified so far was the highlight of the dialogue between the PACE delegation led by Herta Daeubler-Gmelin Bundesjustizministerin and Russia’s lawmakers.
Nowadays, Russia is the only state that hasn’t ratified the Protocol No. 14 that easies procedure for hearing claims at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Under the Protocol, for instance, a single judge instead of three judges will suffice to consider a claim and the purpose to attain is to relieve ECHR of the claims that remain unconsidered for years.
Russia’s refusal to ratify the document prevents it from taking effect. State Duma member Dmitry Vyatkin that attended the yesterday’s meeting reminded that the country’s lawmakers had discussed the issue in December of 2006 and reasoned that facilitated procedures could be to the detriment of the judgment, as the process of arriving at a resolution was sometimes politically motivated at ECHR.
According to Vyatkin, the PACE commission acknowledged in general yesterday that the protocol would hardly make ECHR more efficient, as more essential changes would be required for that purpose. They resolved to set to the dialogue with Russia aimed at reaching a mutually acceptable solution, Vyatkin said, specifying that the dialogue’s beginning resulted from the parties’ decision to abandon tough standing.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 11, 2008
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