{"id":44847,"date":"2004-02-04T01:08:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T00:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/?p=44847"},"modified":"2025-08-03T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:01:43","slug":"eu-2004-02-04-parliamentary-assembly-council-of-europe-mr-christos-pourgourides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/eu-2004-02-04-parliamentary-assembly-council-of-europe-mr-christos-pourgourides\/","title":{"rendered":"EU 2004.02.04 The Parliamentary Council of EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-style-default\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Committee-on-Legal-Affairs-and-Human-Rights-Mr.-Christos-Pourgourides.webp\" alt=\"Mr. Christos Pourgourides Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights\" class=\"wp-image-50925\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Committee-on-Legal-Affairs-and-Human-Rights-Mr.-Christos-Pourgourides.webp 800w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Committee-on-Legal-Affairs-and-Human-Rights-Mr.-Christos-Pourgourides-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Committee-on-Legal-Affairs-and-Human-Rights-Mr.-Christos-Pourgourides-768x509.webp 768w, https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Committee-on-Legal-Affairs-and-Human-Rights-Mr.-Christos-Pourgourides-18x12.webp 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pace.coe.int\/en\/members\/4731\/pourgourides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mr. Christos Pourgourides \u2013 Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Memorandum \u2013 Disappeared persons in Belarus<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsP5oP62fU8?si=40LcwdXCgVjIhtyr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/death-squads-in-minsk\/video-51885389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Death squads in Minsk<\/a> in English<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Report<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights<br>Rapporteur: Mr. Christos Pourgourides, Cyprus, Group of the European People\u2019s Party<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The report presents the results of the investigatory work carried out by the Rapporteur and the ad hoc subcommittee to clarify the fate of four well-known persons who disappeared in Minsk in 1999 and 2000. The conclusions which are drawn gravely impugn certain high representatives of the Government of Belarus. The draft resolution and recommendation called on the Council of Europe and its member and observer states to follow up on these findings, including by sanctions against the Belarusian authorities until they take the measures that must be taken against those responsible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9. On the basis of the information made available to me, I have come to the conclusion that a proper investigation of the disappearances has not been carried out by the competent Belarusian authorities. On the contrary, the interviews I conducted in Minsk, in conjunction with Mr Alkayev\u2019s deposition before the Ad hoc Sub-Committee and the documents or copies thereof that are in my possession, have led me to believe that steps were taken at the highest level of the State actively to cover up the true background of the disappearances, and to suspect that senior officials of the State may themselves be involved in these disappearances.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10. I am fully aware that these are serious allegations, and I shall present hereafter a summary of the elements in my possession that have led<\/strong> me to these conclusions [7], and,<strong> finally, the consequences which I propose the Assembly may draw from these conclusions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EU 2004-02-04 Parliamentary Assembly<br>Council of Europe | Mr. Christos Pourgourides Memorandum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Doc. 10062<\/strong> <br><strong>Rapporteur: Mr Christos Pourgourides<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.refworld.org\/reference\/countryrep\/coepace\/2004\/en\/12607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Disappeared Persons in Belarus, Report by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reviewed Oct. 2023<\/strong><br><strong>Nic. Cheropoulos<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Christos Pourgourides \u2013 Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Memorandum \u2013 Disappeared persons in Belarus Death squads in Minsk in English Report Committee on Legal Affairs and Human RightsRapporteur: Mr. Christos Pourgourides, Cyprus, Group of the European People\u2019s Party Summary The report presents the results of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cornerstone-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionagainstchildabduction.com\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}