DAVID HARUTUNYAN: "GEORGIAN ELECTION RESULTS TRUE"
Panorama.am
20:33 25/01/2008
Winter meeting sessions continue in the Parliamentary Congress
of European Council. According to David Harutunyan, the head of
Armenian group in the Congress, the team is very active, and made
numerous speeches. According to the public relations department of the
National Assembly, yesterday David Harutunyan and Vahe Hovhannisyan
made speeches about "Protecting European Sport Model".
Mr. Harutunyan particularly mentioned that much attention is paid on
developing professional sport than amateur one. It was also notified
that the lack or the insufficiency of sport classes in schools bring
to regress of many types of sport. Thus there is a good deal of
improvements to be carried out in this field.
Vahe Hovhannisyan also made a speech and he particularly mentioned in
it that the variety of sport types in European countries is closely
connected with financial conditions of the member countries, as well
as with its habits set and qualities developed. The political side
of countries was also mentioned, as the forthcoming Armenian-Turkish
football teams’ meeting can solve several questions between the
neighbor countries.
Raffi Hovhannisyan made a speech about the role of opposition in
democratic parliament. According to him, the opposition is the keys
to the Council of Europe rights, democratic principles, and social
supervision of elections. Armenia has a long history of culture and
civilization, but those tragedies contribute to dismissing democracy
in the country.
Then David Harutunyan made another speech about carrying out duties
in Georgia. He said that since their independence it was the first
time the results of presidential elections were not known beforehand
in Georgia. He mentioned that the opposition came to a single opinion
for the first time.