CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 15 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 } .sA1D3DA2E { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .s76CF415B { page-break-before:always; clear:both } .sADADF4A7 { font-family:Arial; text-decoration:underline } .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   312 15.5.2007   Press release issued by the Registrar   Russian visit encouraging says Court President   Following the visit of a delegation from the European Court of Human Rights to Moscow, the European Court’s President, Jean Paul Costa, expressed his satisfaction at the constructive climate in which the visit had taken place. Thanking the Russian authorities for their welcome, the President said that the meetings with senior Russian judges had shown that there was a high degree of support within the judiciary for the international human rights protection system set up by the European Convention on Human Rights. He also welcomed the positive response of his interlocutors to the delegation’s message about the urgency of ratifying the new Protocol No. 14 to the Convention, which is intended to streamline the Court’s procedure for dealing with simple cases. He had been assured that this message would be conveyed to the legislative authorities. The Protocol which has been ratified by all the Council of Europe member States except the Russian Federation cannot enter into force until the last ratification has been received.   “We consider this visit to be very encouraging” said President Costa on his return to Strasbourg. “I am confident that our message has been heard and it is clear that our judicial colleagues in the Russian courts understand the need for effective procedural tools for dealing with case overload. This is what Protocol No. 14 seeks to provide.”   In addition to President Costa, the delegation was composed of Anatoly Kovler, the judge elected in respect of the Russian Federation, Erik Fribergh, the Registrar, and Patrick Titiun, the Head of the President’s Private Office.   The visit took place at the invitation of Valery Zorkin, President of the Russian Constitutional Court, and included a roundtable discussion with the judges of the Constitutional Court.   The delegation also had meetings with 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, together with four members of Parliament, and Vladmir Ustinov, Minister of Justice.   ***   Further information about the Court can be found on its Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).   Press contacts 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.