A NUMBER OF OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF PACE TO VISIT ARMENIA IN CURRENT YEAR

Noyan Tapan
Apr 18 2006

YEREVAN, APRIL 18, NOYAN TAPAN. PACE ad hoc commission on the isssue of
Nagorno Karabakh conflict will visit Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno
Karabakh in October of the current year. Head of the PACE Armenian
delegation, RA NA Vice-Speaker Tigran Torosian informed about it at
the April 17 press conference.

He informed that during the PACE spring session held on April 10-13
in Strasbourg the head of the Armenian and Azeri delegations met with
the Chairman of the above-mentioned commission Lord Russel Jonston
for the purpose of discussing the further work. In particular, they
reached an agreement on reconsideration of the commission’s staff: it
is envisaged that two delegates from Armenia and two from Azerbaijan,
two co-reporters on issues of Armenia and Azerbaijan in PACE from
Armenia and two from Azerbaijan, a representative from each group of
the Assembly will take part in the further work. According to Torosian,
at the meeting it was also established that henceforth the commission
should take control of the fulfilment of the recommendatioms of the
Assembly Resolution N 1416. T.Torosian informed about the Assembly
representatives’ visits to Armenia. In particular, at present Russian
deputy in the Assembly Vera Oskina is in Armenia. She is preparing a
report on the position of women in the South Caucasian countries. In
late May – early June, British deputy in PACE Edvard O’Hara will
pay a visit to Armenia for the purpose of preparing a report on the
condition of the monuments in the South Caucasus. On June 5-9 ,
PACE deputy from Netherlands Leo Platvoet will visit Armenia for
the purpose of preparing a regional report on missing people. On
September 25-27, two co-reporters on the issue of Armenia from the
Monitoring Commission will pay a visit to Armenia for studying the
further application of the constitutional amendments in the Armenian
legislation. According to T.Torosian, after the 2007 parliamentary
elections the co-reporters will make up a final report on fulfilment
of the commitments of the country towards CE. According to the
preliminary agreement, in mid-October a sitting of the Assembly’s
Monitoring Commission will be held in Armenia and the sitting of the
Commission on Political Issues in 2007 spring.