DRAFT DOCUMENT 'THE PRESENT STATE OF ARMENIAN CULTURAL TREASURES IN TURKEY' PRESENTED TO PACE COMMITTEE ON CULTURE, SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
arminfo
2008-04-18 16:59:00
ArmInfo. Raffi K. Hovannisian, leader of the Heritage Party and its
faction in the National Assembly, took part from April 14 to 18 in
the second part of the 2008 plenary session of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as a member of Armenia's
parliamentary delegation.
The press-service of the Heritage Party reports that Raffi Hovannisian
addressed the Assembly on three occasions, the first regarding the
Progress Report of the PACE Bureau on the observation of the recent
Armenian and other elections; the second during the current affairs
debate on Implications of Kosovo's Declaration of Independence; and
the third at the debate under urgent procedure on The Functioning of
Democratic Institutions in Armenia.
In the course of the PACE proceedings, the motion for a recommendation,
entitled "The Present State of Armenian Cultural Treasures in Turkey,"
coauthored by Raffi Hovannisian and 26 other MPs representing more than
20 member states was referred for information to the PACE Committee
on Culture, Science and Education. Hovannisian attended and addressed
the meetings of this Committee and its Sub-Committee on the Cultural
Heritage and the Sub-Committee on the Media; the Committee on the
Honouring of Obligations and Commitments of Member States of the
Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee); the Committee on Legal
Affairs and Human Rights and its Sub-Committee on Human Rights;
the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional
Affairs; and the Group of the European People's Party and its Bureau of
which he is a member. He also held informal consultations with Edward
O'Hara, General Rapporteur on the Cultural Heritage, and several other
colleagues. From Strasbourg, Raffi Hovannisian will travel to Serbia
and Kosovo, where next week he will represent the Armenian delegation
in a NATO Parliamentary Assembly mission to the region.
arminfo
2008-04-18 16:59:00
ArmInfo. Raffi K. Hovannisian, leader of the Heritage Party and its
faction in the National Assembly, took part from April 14 to 18 in
the second part of the 2008 plenary session of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as a member of Armenia's
parliamentary delegation.
The press-service of the Heritage Party reports that Raffi Hovannisian
addressed the Assembly on three occasions, the first regarding the
Progress Report of the PACE Bureau on the observation of the recent
Armenian and other elections; the second during the current affairs
debate on Implications of Kosovo's Declaration of Independence; and
the third at the debate under urgent procedure on The Functioning of
Democratic Institutions in Armenia.
In the course of the PACE proceedings, the motion for a recommendation,
entitled "The Present State of Armenian Cultural Treasures in Turkey,"
coauthored by Raffi Hovannisian and 26 other MPs representing more than
20 member states was referred for information to the PACE Committee
on Culture, Science and Education. Hovannisian attended and addressed
the meetings of this Committee and its Sub-Committee on the Cultural
Heritage and the Sub-Committee on the Media; the Committee on the
Honouring of Obligations and Commitments of Member States of the
Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee); the Committee on Legal
Affairs and Human Rights and its Sub-Committee on Human Rights;
the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional
Affairs; and the Group of the European People's Party and its Bureau of
which he is a member. He also held informal consultations with Edward
O'Hara, General Rapporteur on the Cultural Heritage, and several other
colleagues. From Strasbourg, Raffi Hovannisian will travel to Serbia
and Kosovo, where next week he will represent the Armenian delegation
in a NATO Parliamentary Assembly mission to the region.