MOSCOW, April 22 (RIA Novosti) - Co-rapporteurs from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have proposed abolishing Russia's prosecutors' service, a parliamentarian said on Tuesday.

Mikhail Yemelyanov, a member of the State Duma's committee for constitutional law and state building, attended a meeting between State Duma members and PACE representatives Luc Van den Brande and Teodoros Pangalos on Tuesday.

The PACE officials arrived on a fact-finding mission to monitor Russia's performance in honoring commitments to the Council of Europe before drafting a regular report.

"An insistent recommendation was voiced for the abolishment of the prosecutors' office, which was described as a repressive body with excessive functions," Yemelyanov said.

Yemelyanov said the proposal resulted from a conflict between business and prosecutors in Russia.

"Business wants to relax as much as possible and prosecutors control as much as they can," the MP said.

He described the proposal as "quite serious," but expressed hope that PACE would not be too quick to quarrel with Russia.

Yemelyanov said he got the impression that PACE was preparing the Russia report based on preconceived political assessments and alliances in Europe and the world, rather than actual human right problems in the country.

No comment from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has been made so far.