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    ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO PACE SUCCESS

    news.am
    Oct 14 2010
    Armenia

    There were no specific issues related to Armenia on the agenda of
    the CE Parliamentary Assembly. On the other hand, many of them were
    discussed by the PACE Monitoring Committee. Representatives of the
    Armenian Opposition participated in this Committee~Rs work as well.

    They presented their approaches to various problems.

    At his October 14 press conference in Yerevan, David Harutyunyan,
    Chairman of the Armenian delegation to PACE, reported he presented
    the reforms implemented in Armenia to the PACE Monitoring Committee.

    ~SSpecifically, I pointed out that the draft amendments to the
    Armenian Election Code would be submitted to the Armenian Parliament
    only after being discussed with all the parliamentary forces. I also
    presented reforms in the police system, informed the Committee members
    of the situation pertaining to the mass events freedom. I pointed
    out that all the 15 applications had been considered, but only nine
    processions were held. As regards rallies, 13 applications had been
    submitted. In ten cases the Yerevan Municipality proposed alternative
    places for gatherings and rejected only one application,~T Harutyunyan
    said. As regard the Yerevan Municipality~Rs ~Stradition~T to offer
    ~Salternative~T places for political rallies, Harutyunyan does not
    see anything blameworthy in the city authorities~R actions if they
    offer adequate place for mss actions. ~SQuite another matter is if
    the territory is not fit for mass actions,~T Harutyunyan said.

    He also informed the PACE Monitoring Committee of the process of
    licensing Armenian TV companies. He pointed out that competitions
    are normally followed by a common well-grounded decision on licensing
    particular companies.

    As regard the Armenian delegation~Rs proposal to postpone the PACE
    Co-Rapporteurs~R visit to Armenia due to the CE forum on democracy
    scheduled for October 19, Harutyunyan said that the Monitoring
    Committee showed understanding. The new PACE rapporteur on Armenia is
    likely to be nominated after the new Swedish delegation is formed. The
    former co-rapporteur Goran Lindblad was not elected to the Swedish
    Parliament.

    At their meeting, David Harutyunyan and PACE President Mevlut
    Cavusoglu discussed the issue of forming an interim committee
    on Nagorno-Karabakh. ~SOur position has not changed. We should
    not do again what has once failed. The previous sub-committee on
    Nagorno-Karabakh failed ~V the Azerbaijani delegation keeps on
    insisting on such a committee though,~T Harutyunyan said. He noted
    the Armenian delegation does not object to maintaining contacts with
    its Azeri counterpart.

    At their meeting with the members of the CE Ministers~R Committee, the
    Armenian delegation raised the issue of Azerbaijan~Rs military threats.

    The delegation member Ermine Nahdalyan pointed out that the Committee
    restated there is o alternative to a peaceful settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Turkey is to take over the Ministers~R
    Committee chairmanship this November. In this context Armenian
    delegation members stated they have no intention to change their
    strategy at PACE.

    The members of the Armenian delegation representing the Armenian
    Opposition ~V Zaruhi Postanjyan (Heritage Party) and Armen Rustamyan
    (ARF-D) - were not present at the press conference. David Harutyunyan
    explained they have already informed mass media of their opinions.

    Unlike the Heritage Party representative, the ARF representative has
    been keeping ~Smysterious~T silence since he returned from Strasbourg.




    From: A. Papazian
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