HAMMARBERG’S VISIT COMPLETED

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[07:58 pm] 11 October, 2007

The RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan received Thomas Hammarberg, the
Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights and the delegation
headed by him.

The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights said that his
5-day official visit to Armenia was completed with the meeting with
the Prime Minister.

During his visit Thomas Hammarberg met with the institutions that were
included in the agenda of his mission and with the representatives of
various fields. He briefly presented his impressions to the Head of the
Government underlining, that they were preliminary impressions and he
would prepare a report on the visit after returning to Strasbourg. "If
we find any problems, we will study the experience of other countries,
what solutions they have given to the problems, so that we will be
able to present reasonable proposals in the final text of the report",
said the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights.

In regard with the human rights sphere, he underlined the necessity
of adopting a national comprehensive draft, which would represent a
comprehensive approach to the problems in that field. He mentioned
that this approach was widely spread in Europe, and by defining the
succession of actions and their timetable, we would save time and
energy in implementing the planned works.

During the meeting the parties underlined bilateral wish to register
success in this field and expressed willingness to collaborate in
this regard.