Amendment No. 17 | Doc. 14787 | 22 January 2019

Compatibility of Sharia law with the European Convention on Human Rights: can States Parties to the Convention be signatories to the “Cairo Declaration”?

Signatories: Mr Tritan SHEHU, Albania, EPP/CD ; Mr Adnan DIBRANI, Sweden, SOC ; Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Ukraine, EC ; Mr Akif Çağatay KILIÇ, Turkey, EC ; Mr Asim MOLLAZADE, Azerbaijan, EC

Origin - 2019 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 4, third sentence, replace the words:

"It is therefore of great concern that three Council of Europe member States - Albania, Azerbaijan and Turkey - are signatories to the 1990 Cairo Declaration, as are Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco and Palestine, whose parliaments enjoy partner for democracy status with the Assembly",

with the following words:

"It is therefore of great concern that Council of Europe member States, or countries whose parliaments enjoy partner for democracy status with the Assembly, are signatories to the 1990 Cairo Declaration.".