TIGRAN TOROSIAN: APPLICATION OF SELF-DETERMINATION RIGHT BECOMES MORE AND MORE ACCEPTABLE FOR PACE DEPUTIES

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 3 2006

YEREVAN, JULY 3, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. On July 3, NKR
National Assembly Speaker Ashot Gulian met with RA National Assembly
Speaker Tigran Torosian. Ashot Ghulian told him about his meetings
with officials, deputies and representatives of analytical centers
during his visit to the U.S. He said that these meetings were mutually
efficient and useful.

Tigran Torosian informed NKR NA Speaker about the discussions of
PACE summer session in Strasbourg touching upon the discussions on
prevention of forest fires the Azerbaijani delegation was trying to
turn into one more speculation, the first foreign sitting of PACE
Sub-committee on Nagorno Karabakh to be held in NKR, as well as
the forthcoming visit of Leo Platvoet, Reporter on Missing People
in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan of PACE Committee on Migration,
Refugees and Ethnography, to Nagorno Karabakh. It was mentioned that
though during the discussion of the report on the results of the
independence referendum in Montenegro those speaking tried not to make
comparisons with other countries, it was obvious that the application
of the right of self-determination becomes more and more acceptable
for PACE deputies. Torosian also said that during the discussion
of the report on countries not having ratified the convention on
death penalty liquidation it was registered that death penalty was
liquidated in Nagorno Karabakh, unlike other conflict zones.

According to RA NA Public Relations Department, at the meeting they
also touched upon the work of the RA-NKR Interparliamentary Commission:
the Commission’s regular sitting will take place in autumn in Yerevan.