“ARMENIAN TIME TROUBLE” AT PACE

YEREVAN, JUNE 23. ARMINFO. Today PACE is to hold special debates on
the constitutional reform process in Armenia while the ad hoc
committee on Nagorno Karabakh is to have its first meeting and Venice
Commission experts to meet with the Armenian delegates to the CE.

The co-rapporteurs of PACE monitoring committee Georges Colombier and
Jerzy Jaskiernia and the co-rapporteur of the PACE committee on legal
affairs and human rights Erik Jurgens will attend the debates.

A CE source reports that the debated document contains an urge to the
Armenian authoriites to fully comply with the Venice Commission’s
recommendations and to organize second parliamentary reading of the
issue by Aug at latest. Besides the document urges the Armenian
authorities to take urgent measures to establish a political dialogue
with the opposition and to hold a constitutional reform referendum in
Nov at latest.

The ad hoc committee was set up in the structure of the PACE Bureau
and comprises 19 representatives of the countries interested in the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution.

The source says that the meeting of the Venice Commissioners with the
Armenian delegates to PACE may be continued on Friday.