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November
9, 2005
THE
COUNTERPARTS VISITS
TO THE ALBANIAN PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE OFFICE
1.
Invited by the Albanian People`s Advocate, Mr. Ermir
Dobjani, the Parliamentary Greek Ombudsman, Mr. Yorgos Kaminis,
paid a two-day visit to Tirana, on the 14th to 16th
of September 2005.
This
visit in the framework of the cooperation between both
counterpart offices, focused on the attention paid by the Greek
Ombudsman to the human rights protection of the Albanian
citizens living in Greece.
The
two counterparts expressed their willingness for a further and
intensified cooperation in the future through exchanging
experiences with reciprocal visits of legal experts to each
office and working for a month period of time, through joint
activities in the context of bilateral and multilateral
exchanges and any other activity that reasons the existence of
the Ombudsman Offices in the region and wide-reaching.
During
the two- day visit the Greek Ombudsman had the opportunity to
meet with the Chairwoman of the Albanian Parliament, Mrs.
Jozefina Topalli, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Mr.
Gjergj Sauli and the Chairman of the Supreme Court, Mr. Thimjo
Kondi.
2.
Following the bilateral and multilateral cooperation that the
Office of the Albanian People`s Advocate has already established
with the counterparts institutions and their international
forums, the Ombudsman of the Republic of Austria, Regional Vice
President of the IOI, Mr. Peter Kostelka, paid a two-day visit
in Tirana, on the 16th to 18th of October
2005.
In
their meeting in his Office, Mr. Ermir Dobjani, the People`s
Advocate, appreciated the experiences exchanged between the two
Offices as well as the legal amendments in the Law “On the
People`s Advocate” that is expected to be expressed in other
laws like Criminal and Civil Code of Procedures.
During
the visit to Albania the Austrian Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Kostelka,
had the opportunity to meet with the President of the Republic,
Mr. Alfred Moisiu, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Mr.
Gjergj Sauli, the
Chairman of the Supreme Court, Mr. Thimjo Kondi and the Minister
of Justice, Mr. Aldo Bumci.
Over
the five years of activity, the Albanian People`s Advocate, Mr.
Ermir Dobjani, has received in Tirana several invited
counterparts that you can find as follows:
The
Year 2000
September
6-8
-Hans
Gammeltoft Hansen, Parliamentary Ombudsman of Denmark
-Ivan
Bizjak, Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia
The
year 2001
August
5-8
Mr.
Marek Antoni Nowicki, Ombudsperson of Kosovo
Nov.
8-12
Mr.
Werner Palla, Difensore Civico
of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Italy.
Nov.
27-28
Mr.
Nikiforos Diamandouros, the Ombudsman of the Republic of Greece
The
year 2002
March
21-24
Mr.
Bernard Stasi, Mediator of the Republic of
France
April
3-5
Mr.
Claes Eklundh, Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman of Sweden
June
26-29
Mr.Gammeltoft
Hansen, Parliamentary Ombudsman of Denmark
July
8-10
Mr.
Nikolaus Schwarzler, Executive Board Member to EOI
July
17-22
Mr.
Frank Orton , Ombudsman of Bosnia
& Herzegovina
July30
–Aug 2
Mr.Oleg
Mironov, Commissioner on Human Rights in the Russian Federation
Octob.20-22
Mr.
Alvaro Gil Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council
of Europe
The
Year 2003
Feb.27
-March 2
Mr.
Ante Klaric ,Ombudsman of the Republic of Croatia
April
24-27
Mr.
Branko Naumoski, People`s Advocate of Macedonia
The
Year 2004
Feb.18-20.
Mr.
Roel Fernhout, National
Ombudsman of the Netherlands
March
16-18
Mr.
Andrzej Zoll, Commissioner
for Civil Rights Protection of
the Republic of Poland
The
Year 2005
Jan.
17 –19
Mr.
Hans Gammeltoft- Hansen, Parliamentary Ombudsman of Denmark
April
24-28
Mr.
Petar Teofilovic, Ombudsman of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
June
9-12
Mr.
Ixhet Memeti , People`s Advocate of Macedonia.
Sept.14-16
Mr.
Giorgos Kaminis, Ombudsman of the Republic of Greece.
Octob.16-18
Mr.
Peter Kostelka, National Ombudsman of Austria Regional Vice
President of IOI
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