Armenia Receives PACE Delegation

Economic News
December 6, 2007 Thursday

Armenia Receives PACE Delegation

Yerevan. ">OREANDA-NEWS . December 6, 2007. RA Prime Minister Serzh
Sargsyan received the delegation led by Georges Colombier, rapporteur
for Armenia on the monitoring commission of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). First of all, Mr. Colombier
briefed the RA Prime Minister on the objectives behind his visit by
mentioning that he has come to our country to get acquainted with the
situation about six and a half months past the May parliamentary
elections and two and a half months prior to the upcoming
presidential vote in Armenia, as well as to collect information
regarding our country’s developments in the pre-election period. "I
am glad that reforms are completed in a number of spheres, including
the adoption of an amended constitution, the improvements to the
electoral code, the judiciary reform that are supposed to bring about
tangible shifts in the reform process in Armenia after full
enactment," Georges Colombier has said.

Serzh Sargsyan welcomed the visit to the Republic of Armenia of the
delegation led by rapporteur for Armenia on the PACE monitoring
commission Georges Colombier and noted that the monitoring carried
out by the Council of Europe is another incentive for our country to
implement the reforms in line with the proposed time-schedule.

The parties have also spoken about the preparations for the
forthcoming presidential elections, the ways to ensuring that the
poll is free and fair, the measures towards providing freedom of
speech and plurality, past and future action for fighting corruption,
as well as the latest developments in the Karabakh peace process.