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    PACE SHOULD NOT TURN BLIND EYE TO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ARMENIA: HEAD OF DELEGATION

    Trend News Agency
    April 17 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 17 April / corr. TrendNews A. Maharramli, I. Alizade/
    The Parliament Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE0 should pay
    attention to the recent developments in Armenia and should not turn a
    blind eye to them. "If PACE closely follows the events in Azerbaijan
    and Georgia, it should also closely follow the recent developments
    in other South Caucasus country - Armenia," said Samad Sayidov, the
    head of Azerbaijani delegation during the urgent discussions over
    presidential elections in Armenia held within the PACE session in
    17 April.

    On 19 Feb, presidential elections were held in Armenia. The Central
    Election Commission said that Serj Sarkisyan, the former premier and
    a candidate from the government won the elections by gaining 52.2%
    of votes. The supporters of former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan, a
    key candidate from the opposition, did not accept the election outcome
    and staged uninterrupted demonstrations. The peaceful demonstrations
    were dispersed by the law enforcement agencies at night from 1 to
    2 March resulting in death of 9 people and hundreds of people being
    wounded and arrested.

    "The current report was more balanced than the one introduced in the
    first day. Armenia is required to conduct independent investigation.

    If we approach the situation mildly, then how can we make comparisons
    with other countries? I am against the statement that Armenia should
    not be compared with other countries," Seyidov added.

    Gultakin Hajiyeva, the member of Azerbaijani delegation said that the
    delegations representing the country, who committed violations during
    the elections, are usually deprived of the right to vote. "As to the
    depriving Armenian delegation of this right for the elections that
    were accompanied with brutality, there has not been any such proposal
    made for this as yet. How can the undemocratic presidential elections
    resulting in mass human victims meet Council of Europe standards?

    Some people want to appoint a reporter for Azerbaijan because of 5-10
    political prisoners in the country. But no one is going to speak about
    appointing a reporter for more than 100 arrested members of party,
    former MPs and other political figures in Armenia," she said.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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