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PACE COMMITTEE ACCEPTS THE REPORT ON "PRESENCE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN AZERBAIJAN"
ARMENPRESS
26 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 26, ARMENPRESS: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe has had quite a full agenda June 26, especially in the
committees, member of the Armenian delegation to PACE Naira Zohrabyan
told Armenpress.
According to her, 2 reports have been under discussion in the PACE
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights from the morning, first
of which concerned the formulation of "political prisoner", and the
second concerned presence of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
"The Azerbaijani delegation exerted unprecedented efforts to unite its
lobbyist MPs at PACE under one rough, to bring them to the committee,
so that the two reports were thrown down and especially the second
one. They had brought a great number of lobbyists, who shamelessly
lied and tried to present the current situation in Azerbaijan with
other groundings, and even their partner MPs called on not to be
dishonest and leave the PACE, if they cannot resist pressures,"
said Naira Zohrabyan. She also noted that nevertheless, both reports
were accepted at the committee. PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and
Human Rights accepted the second report, which concerned presence of
political prisoners in Azerbaijan, with ratio of 25 yes votes to no
23 votes.
"It is strange that Pedro Agramunt, who has been appointed co-reporter
in Azerbaijan by the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly
of Council of Europe (PACE) was actively resisting these reports,
whereas the PACE Charter bans the MPs who have clash of profits to
become a reporter on that issue. I think our partners represented
at the PACE Monitoring Committee should consider the purposefulness
of Agramunt's being a reporter, as that official is not impartial,"
noted Naira Zohrabyan. According to her, Agramunt is also involved in
"caviar diplomacy" list, that is, in the list of the MPs, who have
been corrupted by Azerbaijan.
ARMENPRESS
26 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 26, ARMENPRESS: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe has had quite a full agenda June 26, especially in the
committees, member of the Armenian delegation to PACE Naira Zohrabyan
told Armenpress.
According to her, 2 reports have been under discussion in the PACE
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights from the morning, first
of which concerned the formulation of "political prisoner", and the
second concerned presence of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
"The Azerbaijani delegation exerted unprecedented efforts to unite its
lobbyist MPs at PACE under one rough, to bring them to the committee,
so that the two reports were thrown down and especially the second
one. They had brought a great number of lobbyists, who shamelessly
lied and tried to present the current situation in Azerbaijan with
other groundings, and even their partner MPs called on not to be
dishonest and leave the PACE, if they cannot resist pressures,"
said Naira Zohrabyan. She also noted that nevertheless, both reports
were accepted at the committee. PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and
Human Rights accepted the second report, which concerned presence of
political prisoners in Azerbaijan, with ratio of 25 yes votes to no
23 votes.
"It is strange that Pedro Agramunt, who has been appointed co-reporter
in Azerbaijan by the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly
of Council of Europe (PACE) was actively resisting these reports,
whereas the PACE Charter bans the MPs who have clash of profits to
become a reporter on that issue. I think our partners represented
at the PACE Monitoring Committee should consider the purposefulness
of Agramunt's being a reporter, as that official is not impartial,"
noted Naira Zohrabyan. According to her, Agramunt is also involved in
"caviar diplomacy" list, that is, in the list of the MPs, who have
been corrupted by Azerbaijan.