PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN RECEIVED THE COE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

armradio.am
13.03.2008 16:58

RA President Robert Kocharyan received the delegation headed by the
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg,
President’s Press Office reported.

The discussions mainly focused on the situation in Armenia in
post-election period and the problems connected with it.

According to President Kocharyan, unfortunately, we did not manage
to avoid the undesirable development of events and the state had to
undertake certain steps to normalize the situation.

The interlocutors turned to the condition of human rights protection
under the state of emergency and attached importance to undertaking
necessary steps for the soon settlement of the situation.

Robert Kocharyan said the situation in the capital is now calm. It’s
stabilizing and due to that the provisions of the state of emergency
have been mitigated twice.