TOROSYAN: ATTITUDE OF COE AND ARMENIA TOWARDS REGIONAL ISSUES COINCIDE

Arka News Agency, Armenia.
Dec 29 2006

YEREVAN, December 29. /ARKA/. The attitude of the Council of Europe
(CoE) and Armenia towards regional issues coincided with each other,
Speaker of the RA National Assembly Tigran Torosyan said.

He said that the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoF was an important
structure for Armenia from the viewpoint of the international
cooperation. "Political and democratic constituent of Armenia’s
the eurointegration was being formed in the scope of the PACE",
he pointed out.

In that connection Torosyan emphasized that in 2006 the PACE had
approved two important resolutions. "In April I adopted a resolution
on the state of refugees in South Caucasus, according to which the
situation in Armenia was incomparably better that in Georgia and
Azerbaijan", he said.

Torosyan pointed out that the number of Azerbaijani refugees, totaling
83ths people, was fixed in the report, and the number of displaced
people from regions, bordering Nagorno-Karabakh, slightly topped
500 thsd.

"After this many high-ranking officials and representatives
of international organizations began indicating it", he informed
and added that those figures were also noted in the PACE report on
Stability Pact for the South Caucasus.

Torosyan finds that it’s a rather important step to break the
stereotype that the Azerbaijani side tried to thrust on the
international community regarding this issue.