Co-rapporteurs for PACE monitoring committee to pay fact-collecting visit to Moldova

Chisinau, 20 February /MOLDPRES/-Co-rapporteurs for the monitoring committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Valentina Leskaj and Ögmundur Jonásson will pay a fact-collecting visit to Moldova on 22-23 February, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.

The purpose of MEPs’ visit is information on the recent political evolutions in Moldova, as well as consideration of preventive detention conditions of ex-Prime Minister Vlad Filat and former MP Grigore Petrenco.

On 22 February, the officials will hold talks with Filat and Petrenco, their lawyers, as well as with the head of penitentiary No 13, Igor Juvala.

The agenda also includes meetings with Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu, deputy speaker Liliana Palihovici, head of the parliamentary delegation to PACE, leadership of parliamentary parties, lawmakers, Democrats’ leader Marian Lupu, Liberals’ leader Mihai Ghimpu, Socialists’ leader Igor Dodon, Communists’ leader Vladimir Voronin, as well as with deputy head of Liberal Democratic Party Valeriu Strelet.

Under the agenda of the visit, the MEPs will also hold talks with Prosecutor General Corneliu Gurin, Director of the National Anti-Corruption Centre Viorel Chetraru, Justice Minister Vladimir Cebotari, Interior Minister Alexandru Jizdan, Deputy Foreign and European Integration Minister Daniela Cujba and Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Gheorghe Balan.

At the same time, the officials will also meet representatives of the diplomatic staff, civil society, extra-parliamentary parties and Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova.

In late 2015, Chairperson of the PACE monitoring committee Stefan Schennach visited Moldova as well.

(Editor M. Jantovan)