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PACE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES REPORT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SPECIFICATIONS OF ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO PACE
ArmInfo
2008-06-26 14:16:00
PACE has unanimously passed the report taking into account
the specifications of the Armenian delegation to PACE. ArmInfo
correspondent to Strasbourg reports the amendments to the resolution
were mostly of technical nature and were connected to specification
of legal wordings. The most significant specifications referred to
the points regarding the people detained after the unrest in March in
Yerevan as well as the demands of the co-rapporteurs to provide A1+
TV with a broadcasting license.
Thus, the point on inadmissibility of filing accusation only on the
basis of police testimonies was amended. In particular the proposal
of the Monitoring Committee to attract independent witnesses was
omitted. The new edition of the text says that rendering of judicial
decision on the basis of only police testimonies is inadmissible. To
render such decisions, additional witnessing is necessary, the
document says. In addition, the new edition of the text says that
the criminal cases under investigation must be stopped without delay
or considered by the court to guarantee the exercise of the right to
fair verdict in conformity with the case-law of the European Court
for Human Rights. Accusations on the proceedings on articles 300
and 225 of the Criminal Code must be cancelled if there are no hard
evidences that a person made violent actions or ordered, provoked
or contributed to commitment of such actions, the document says. As
regards the regulations of the interim commission to investigate the
incidents of March 1-2 in Yerevan, the resolution proposes adopting
decisions on the basis of a consensus. It recommends resorting to
exercising the right to vote only in case of extreme necessity.
PACE recommends seeking methods including amnesty, pardon or stoppage
of persecution of the people detained after the incident on 1 March,
except those who committed violent actions or ordered, provoked or
contributed to commitment of such actions. The report, in particular,
says that PACE in particular admitted that the time provided to the
Armenian authorities to fulfill the demands of PACE resolution was
limited. For lack of time, it was impossible to assess how fully the
initiatives of the authorities to fulfill the demands of the Assembly
met the report. Nevertheless, the Commission proposes the Assembly
to consider the progress Armenia will show in fulfillment of the
Resolution during the Winter Session of PACE in January 2009. If
Armenia fails to fulfill the Resolution, the Monitoring Committee
proposes PACE to study the possibility of suspending the mandate of
the Armenian delegations and depriving it of the right to vote at
the January Session.
ArmInfo
2008-06-26 14:16:00
PACE has unanimously passed the report taking into account
the specifications of the Armenian delegation to PACE. ArmInfo
correspondent to Strasbourg reports the amendments to the resolution
were mostly of technical nature and were connected to specification
of legal wordings. The most significant specifications referred to
the points regarding the people detained after the unrest in March in
Yerevan as well as the demands of the co-rapporteurs to provide A1+
TV with a broadcasting license.
Thus, the point on inadmissibility of filing accusation only on the
basis of police testimonies was amended. In particular the proposal
of the Monitoring Committee to attract independent witnesses was
omitted. The new edition of the text says that rendering of judicial
decision on the basis of only police testimonies is inadmissible. To
render such decisions, additional witnessing is necessary, the
document says. In addition, the new edition of the text says that
the criminal cases under investigation must be stopped without delay
or considered by the court to guarantee the exercise of the right to
fair verdict in conformity with the case-law of the European Court
for Human Rights. Accusations on the proceedings on articles 300
and 225 of the Criminal Code must be cancelled if there are no hard
evidences that a person made violent actions or ordered, provoked
or contributed to commitment of such actions, the document says. As
regards the regulations of the interim commission to investigate the
incidents of March 1-2 in Yerevan, the resolution proposes adopting
decisions on the basis of a consensus. It recommends resorting to
exercising the right to vote only in case of extreme necessity.
PACE recommends seeking methods including amnesty, pardon or stoppage
of persecution of the people detained after the incident on 1 March,
except those who committed violent actions or ordered, provoked or
contributed to commitment of such actions. The report, in particular,
says that PACE in particular admitted that the time provided to the
Armenian authorities to fulfill the demands of PACE resolution was
limited. For lack of time, it was impossible to assess how fully the
initiatives of the authorities to fulfill the demands of the Assembly
met the report. Nevertheless, the Commission proposes the Assembly
to consider the progress Armenia will show in fulfillment of the
Resolution during the Winter Session of PACE in January 2009. If
Armenia fails to fulfill the Resolution, the Monitoring Committee
proposes PACE to study the possibility of suspending the mandate of
the Armenian delegations and depriving it of the right to vote at
the January Session.