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Davit Harutyunyan: "Assembly is becoming more and more forgiving
towards Azerbaijan"
Tue, 01/29/2013 - 18:45
"Unfortunately, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
is becoming more and more strange organization" during the press
conference on January 29 said the Head of the Armenian delegation in
PACE, the head of the permanent committee on State and Legal Affairs
of the National Assembly Davit Harutyunyan, summarizing the results
of January 21-25 winter session in Strasbourg.
According to the speaker, the Assembly is "becoming more forgiving
towards Azerbaijan". "Some insisting actions started to be forgiven
to Azerbaijan" said D. Harutyunyan, noting the fact that the PACE
reporter of the issue on the political prisoners in Azerbaijan was
long time prohibited to enter the country.
The next example was the rather strange report on the implementation
of commitments by Azerbaijan in which only one sentence was said about
the Ramil Safarov which was a topic of heat discussion several months
ago in PACE.
D. Harutyunayn believes that the non-responsiveness of those actions
by the PACE will have its impact on the reputation of the organization.
According to the head of the Armenian delegation the rejection of
the report on the political prisoners in Azerbaijan made it clear
that not everything is clear with PACE. According to him, a "very
serious, reasoned and solid" report was prepared but they managed
to defeat it by bringing the members that voted against it. "Many
members took an active participation in the Assembly, who being
members never participated in the hearings before" he said, adding
that those members not only participated but also tried to tie the
issue with the Nagorno-Karabakh.
"It is not strange that the work of a paid lobbyist blossomed in
PACE recent years and the Assembly had to take serious steps in
that direction. In particular, in the last meeting of the Bureau
we established several rules for the members of the Assembly. For
example, if they receive a present exceeding the certain amount of
money they have to declare that" D. Harutyunyan noted. According to
him, the control mechanisms are very weak, but "we started to import
such rules, it is talking about the fact that we all see that such
problems exist, and they are becoming more and more."
Author: Factinfo
towards Azerbaijan"
Tue, 01/29/2013 - 18:45
"Unfortunately, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
is becoming more and more strange organization" during the press
conference on January 29 said the Head of the Armenian delegation in
PACE, the head of the permanent committee on State and Legal Affairs
of the National Assembly Davit Harutyunyan, summarizing the results
of January 21-25 winter session in Strasbourg.
According to the speaker, the Assembly is "becoming more forgiving
towards Azerbaijan". "Some insisting actions started to be forgiven
to Azerbaijan" said D. Harutyunyan, noting the fact that the PACE
reporter of the issue on the political prisoners in Azerbaijan was
long time prohibited to enter the country.
The next example was the rather strange report on the implementation
of commitments by Azerbaijan in which only one sentence was said about
the Ramil Safarov which was a topic of heat discussion several months
ago in PACE.
D. Harutyunayn believes that the non-responsiveness of those actions
by the PACE will have its impact on the reputation of the organization.
According to the head of the Armenian delegation the rejection of
the report on the political prisoners in Azerbaijan made it clear
that not everything is clear with PACE. According to him, a "very
serious, reasoned and solid" report was prepared but they managed
to defeat it by bringing the members that voted against it. "Many
members took an active participation in the Assembly, who being
members never participated in the hearings before" he said, adding
that those members not only participated but also tried to tie the
issue with the Nagorno-Karabakh.
"It is not strange that the work of a paid lobbyist blossomed in
PACE recent years and the Assembly had to take serious steps in
that direction. In particular, in the last meeting of the Bureau
we established several rules for the members of the Assembly. For
example, if they receive a present exceeding the certain amount of
money they have to declare that" D. Harutyunyan noted. According to
him, the control mechanisms are very weak, but "we started to import
such rules, it is talking about the fact that we all see that such
problems exist, and they are becoming more and more."
Author: Factinfo