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On June 4-6, 2019, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met at their 1348th session to debate the state of execution of judgments under enhanced supervision. They included four rulings delivered in the CIA extraordinary rendition cases against Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. In their decisions concerning each of these states, the Ministers expressed their frustration that despite both the Committee’s and each of the three countries not much progress has been achieved and in one respect – that is, the assurances from the U.S. government – the state of the matter has not changed at all. The Ministers have been desperately trying to move the matter forward for several years, despite the fact that on February 26, 2016, Pedro Agramunt, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), announced that the inquiry under Article 52 of the European Convention on Human Rights has fulfilled its purpose and declare it closed.