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The two-day work of the Legal and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which, on the initiative of the Head of the Cypriot delegation to the PACE, Mr. The meeting was held in Larnaca on 22 and 23 May 2023, under the chairmanship of Mr Damien Cottier, member of the National Council of Switzerland. Nikos Tornaritis and, by extension, to the House of Representatives itself, which had undertaken to organize the session in question, he praised the great importance for the committee he chaired of the opportunity given to the members, on the one hand to gain a first-hand understanding of the situation in Cyprus, particularly by visiting the area of free Famagusta, and on the other hand to gain an in-depth understanding of other critical issues for Cyprus related to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Such issues relate in particular to the implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Cyprus and progress in implementing the necessary reforms to comply, as well as broader issues arising from the 4th Inter-State Application of Cyprus against Turkey (Loizidou case) and the recent decision of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to terminate the monitoring of the case without Turkey fulfilling its obligations towards Cyprus.
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