Moldovan premier receives European top court's appreciations for progress in implementing Convention on Human Rights

Chisinau, 26 June /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip, on an official visit to Strasbourg, today visited the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), where he had discussions with ECHR President Guido Raimondi, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.  

The sides held a dialogue on Moldova’s files at the European Court, including the complains recorded on behalf of the Moldovan citizens from the Transnistrian region. The PM appreciated the Council of Europe’s contribution to the promotion of the democratic reforms and human rights in Moldova. At the same time, he noted that the ECHR files and rulings represented a relevant index of Moldova’s European integration. In the context, the prime minister highlighted the recent signing by Moldova of the 16th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights for the defence of the human rights and fundamental freedoms.    

“Our efforts will be further oriented towards improving the system of national remedies, ensuring an efficient and coherent implementation of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as to fully carry out the ECHR decisions,” the prime minister said.     

Pavel Filip also said that the government was backing the process of ECHR’s reformation and took the decision to support the Court by detaching second jurists. Thus, Moldova is set to contribute to facilitating the consideration of the admissibility of applications submitted to the Court on behalf of Moldova’s citizens and to the continuous diminution of the number of applications in the course of settlement.    

For his part, ECHR President Guido Raimondi thanked for this decision, stressing that the detaching the second jurists enhances the efficiency of ECHR files’ examination. The European official said that the volume of new cases against Moldova, pending at the Court, was dropping against the years before. Raimondi came up with recommendations for Moldova, in order to ensure the equality in rights, promote the non-discriminatory values and tolerance in the society.     

Representatives of the European Court of Human Rights also found out the registration of new progress in terms of implementation of the Convention on Human Rights and fulfillment of ECHR rulings in Moldova.  

In the end, the sides agreed to continue the discussions, including on the applicability of the European Convention on Human Rights in Moldova in the last 20 years, at a visit to Chisinau by the ECHR President, due in next October.   

Under decisions by the European Court of Human Rights, in 2016, Moldova was convicted in 23 causes, with the overall sum of equitable satisfactions estimated at 130,000 euros, down against 2015 (227,339 euros).