PACE SITTING TO START
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[01:14 pm] 02 October, 2006
The fall sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe (PACE) is to start today in Strasbourg. The delegation of
the RA National Assembly, with Speaker Tigran Torosyan at the head,
will participate in it.
The delegation includes head of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign
Relations Armen Roustamyan, member of the Republican Party Hermineh
Naghdalyan, head of the Justice faction Stepan Demirchyan and head
of the National Unity faction Artashes Geghamyan.
The fifth anniversary of Armenia’s membership in the CoE will also
be celebrated this week in Strasbourg.
The main issues of the CoE agenda are the situation in Kosovo and in
Balkans, as well as the speech of the Hungarian Prime Minister.
Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov will make a speech on
Wednesday. The letter presides over the CoE Ministers’ Committee.