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ARMENIAN OPPOSITION MP IN DELEGATION TO PACE TO BE REPLACED? - NEWSPAPER
October 08, 2013 | 07:47
YEREVAN. - Zaruhi Postanjyan stated that Armenian National Assembly
(NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan cannot remove her from the Armenian
delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) because this will violate the PACE Charter, 168 Zham reports.
"The PACE Charter, however, proposes two principles for the formation
of national delegations: political and gender balance.
"If Zaruhi Postanjyan [who is Armenia's opposition Heritage Party NA
Faction Secretary and member of Armenia's NA delegation to PACE] is
removed from the delegation, neither will the government-opposition
balance tip in favor of the government, nor will a gender
discrimination come about because, aside from Zaruhi Postanjyan,
there are three more women MPs in the delegation.
"We have learned that, as of January 1, 2014, [the coalition
government's junior partner, Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law)] RLP member
Mher Shahgeldyan will replace Zaruhi Postanjyan," 168 Zham writes.
To note, during the question and answer session at the PACE plenary
session in Strasbourg, France, on October 2, Zaruhi Postanjyan had
asked Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan the following question:
"You have appeared here [in the PACE session] not by the will of
the people, but [rather] as a consequence of organized crime, the
theft of the Armenian people's vote. Therefore you cannot de jure
represent the will and right of the Armenian people. [So,] I'll give
you another question. Have you been to a casino inEurope and lost 70
million euros there? And who paid that amount in your stead?"
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October 08, 2013 | 07:47
YEREVAN. - Zaruhi Postanjyan stated that Armenian National Assembly
(NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan cannot remove her from the Armenian
delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) because this will violate the PACE Charter, 168 Zham reports.
"The PACE Charter, however, proposes two principles for the formation
of national delegations: political and gender balance.
"If Zaruhi Postanjyan [who is Armenia's opposition Heritage Party NA
Faction Secretary and member of Armenia's NA delegation to PACE] is
removed from the delegation, neither will the government-opposition
balance tip in favor of the government, nor will a gender
discrimination come about because, aside from Zaruhi Postanjyan,
there are three more women MPs in the delegation.
"We have learned that, as of January 1, 2014, [the coalition
government's junior partner, Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law)] RLP member
Mher Shahgeldyan will replace Zaruhi Postanjyan," 168 Zham writes.
To note, during the question and answer session at the PACE plenary
session in Strasbourg, France, on October 2, Zaruhi Postanjyan had
asked Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan the following question:
"You have appeared here [in the PACE session] not by the will of
the people, but [rather] as a consequence of organized crime, the
theft of the Armenian people's vote. Therefore you cannot de jure
represent the will and right of the Armenian people. [So,] I'll give
you another question. Have you been to a casino inEurope and lost 70
million euros there? And who paid that amount in your stead?"
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
- See more at: http://news.am/eng/news/174847.html#sthash.jToWVw0X.dpuf