INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION PLACE DU PETIT-SACONNEX 1211 GENEVA 19, SWITZERLAND |
CASE N° MOL/01 - ILIE ILASCU - REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Resolution adopted without a vote by the Inter-Parliamentary Council
Referring to the outline of the case of Mr. Ilie Ilascu, a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, as contained in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/168/13(c)-R.1), and to the relevant resolution adopted at its 167th session (October 2000), Taking account of the communication of 13 March 2001 from the President of the Romanian Inter-Parliamentary Group, and of the information provided by the latter on the occasion of the 105th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (April 2001), Recalling the following information on file:
Further recalling that the IPU has always pressed for Mr. Ilascu's transfer to the non-separatist part of the Republic of Moldova or another sovereign State where he could be retried by a lawful, independent and impartial tribunal; considering that efforts to this end are currently under way, Considering that Mr. Ilie Ilascu, a member of the Parliament of Moldova from 1994 to 2000, was granted Romanian citizenship on 4 October 2000 and, on 26 November 2000, was elected a member of the Romanian Senate, the Moldovan Parliament terminating his mandate on 4 December 2000, Considering that a note prepared by the Committee on CIS Affairs of the Russian State Duma on the case of Mr. Ilascu, and forwarded on 11 January 2001, concludes that since "Mr. Ilascu has become a citizen and parliamentarian of a State that is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), we are no longer in a position to influence the fate of a former deputy of the Moldovan Parliament", Recalling that Mr. Ilascu has brought his case before the European Court of Human Rights, which invited the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation (the latter, according to the complaint, sharing responsibility since the territory of Transdniestria is under its de facto control) to submit written observations on the admissibility and merits of Mr. Ilascu's application, which both have already done; noting that, according to the information provided by the President of the Romanian Inter-Parliamentary Group on the occasion of the 105th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the European Court has decided to refer the case to a Grand Chamber under an accelerated procedure, Further recalling that, in the view of the Council of Europe, the European Union and the OSCE, the continued presence of the Fourteenth Russian Army and its military installations hampers a solution to the Transdniestria problem, this being the backdrop to the Ilascu case, Noting that the agreement of 21 October 1994 between the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation, providing for the withdrawal of the Russian troops, has still not entered into force and that the Russian State Duma removed the item relating to ratification of the agreement from its agenda in January 1999,
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