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ARMENIAN OPPOSITION MEMBER TO LOSE PACE DELEGATION SEAT OVER CASINO QUESTION - PARLIAMENT SPEAKER
Interfax, Russia
Oct 3 2013
YEREVAN. Oct 3
Heritage opposition party member Zaruhi Postanjyan will be excluded
from Armenia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE) for insulting Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
"Given Armenian parliamentarian Postanjyan's conduct at yesterday's
PACE session, and bearing in mind the regulations of the National
Assembly, I announce that after consultations with the parliamentary
factions I will introduce certain changes to the composition of
the Armenian delegation to PACE," Armenian Parliament Speaker Hovik
Abrahamyan said on Thursday.
During the PACE session on Wednesday, Postanjyan asked the Armenian
president where he had found the money to pay off the 70 million euro
debt he allegedly lost in a European casinos.
Sargsyan, for his part, denied the claim, saying that he had never
been to any casinos.
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Interfax, Russia
Oct 3 2013
YEREVAN. Oct 3
Heritage opposition party member Zaruhi Postanjyan will be excluded
from Armenia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE) for insulting Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
"Given Armenian parliamentarian Postanjyan's conduct at yesterday's
PACE session, and bearing in mind the regulations of the National
Assembly, I announce that after consultations with the parliamentary
factions I will introduce certain changes to the composition of
the Armenian delegation to PACE," Armenian Parliament Speaker Hovik
Abrahamyan said on Thursday.
During the PACE session on Wednesday, Postanjyan asked the Armenian
president where he had found the money to pay off the 70 million euro
debt he allegedly lost in a European casinos.
Sargsyan, for his part, denied the claim, saying that he had never
been to any casinos.
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