CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 10 mai 2007

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s40F41F73 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:right } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .s3C4DB099 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:left; font-size:10pt } .sC7EAD8B { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS   296 10.05.2007   Press release issued by the Registrar   European Court delegation to visit Russian Constitutional Court   A delegation from the European Court of Human Rights will be visiting Moscow from 9 to 12 May 2007. The delegation is composed of Jean-Paul Costa, the Court’s President, Anatoly Kovler, the Russian member of the Court, Erik Fribergh, the Registrar, and Patrick Titiun, the Head of the President’s Private Office.   The delegation will meet Valery Zorkin, President of the Russian Constitutional Court, and take part in a roundtable discussion with the judges of the Constitutional Court.   The delegation is also scheduled to meet Vyacheslav Lebedev, President of the Supreme Court, Anton Ivanov, President of the High Court of Arbitration, Yuriy Chayka, Prosecutor General, Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the State Duma and Vladmir Ustinov, Minister of Justice.   The main purpose of the visit is an exchange of views with senior members of the Russian judiciary. The Court has frequently emphasised the importance of the role of national courts in the human rights protection system set up by the European Convention on Human Rights and regularly holds working meetings with representatives of the superior courts of the Convention States to discuss ways of reinforcing protection at national level, in particular by introducing new remedies. This is hoped in the longer term to relieve the hard pressed Strasbourg Court.   This visit also comes at a time when the Court is keenly awaiting the entry into force of a new Protocol to the Convention (No. 14), which will enable it to speed up certain procedures for simple cases. The Protocol has been ratified by all the Council of Europe member States except the Russian Federation. The delegation may therefore also seize this opportunity to clear up any unresolved issues about the scope of the Protocol and to urge their hosts to work towards its early ratification.   ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts Roderick Liddell (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 24 92) Emma Hellyer (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15) Stéphanie Klein (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 88 41 21 54) Beverley Jacobs (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 54 21) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.