IN RESOLUTION ADOPTED ON JANUARY 25 PACE SERIOUSLY CONDEMNS HRANT
DINK’S MURDER

STRASBOURG, JANUARY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The Parliamentary Assembly of
the Council of Europe adopted on January 25 a resolution "On Danger
Threatening Journalist’s Life and Expression of Speech," by which,
particularly, murders of journalists Hrant Dink and Anna Politkovskaya
are seriously condemned. It is also mentioned in the resolution that
during the last one year rather serious violences were implemented
towards journalists especially in Eastern European countries, the
leaders among which are RF and Azerbaijan.

According to Radio Liberty, H.Dink’s judicial Odessey is briefly
presented in the part of the resolution concerning "Akos" newspaper
editor’s murder.

Besides, it is mentioned that he addressed with a claim to the European
Court of Human Rights few weeks before his death. It is also fixed
in the document that the journalist wrote in one of his last articles
that he got many threats.

During the discussion on the draft resolution, according to the radio
station, Armen Rustamian, a member of the PACE Armenian delegation,
the Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign
Relations, a representative of the ARF Armenian Supreme Body made a
rather strict speech. "Ones who struggle for the Armenian Genocide, do
it in a peaceful and civilized way, those who deny the genocide fact,
use the whole repressive resource of the state or simply shoot. Hrant
Dink was too right, considering that the greatest achievement fixed on
the way of Turkey to the European Union can be the Armenian Genocide
recognition," the Armenian deputy said in his speech. He also called
on the Turkish side to follow the example of Germany recognized the
Holocaust and recongnize the Armenian Genocide.

According to the radio station, the Turkish deputies present at the
sitting restrainedly responded A.Rustamian’s speech.