ZHARANGUTIUN PRESENTS ITS VISION OF COMING OUT OF STRAINED POST-ELECTORAL SITUATION TO HEAD OF AGO GROUP
Noyan Tapan
April 1, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 1, NOYAN TAPAN. During the April 1 meeting with the
delegation of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Monitoring
Ago Group, the members of the RA National Assembly Zharangutiun
(Heritage) faction presented the strained post-electoral situation
in RA and their vision of coming out of it. Issues related to the
RA Constitutional Court’s decision on challenge of the results of
elections, the dictate of unbiassed and many-sided investigation
of the March 1 tragic events, changes in the legislative sphere
limiting human rights and basic freedoms, protection of rights of
people arrested for their political views were discussed at the
meeting. The Zharangutiun members attached importance to the ways of
overcoming the legal-political crisis, which have been stipulated in
the party’s statement voiced lately.
The same day Per Sjogren, the Head of the Ago Group, the Ambassador
of Sweden to PACE, met with Raffi Hovannisian, the Chairman of the
Zharangutiun faction. Challenges and further tasks connected with
fulfilment of commitments assumed by Armenia towards the Council of
Europe, in particular, connected with exclusion of legal and political
arbitrariness to their own citizens, were discussed.
According to the report of the Zharangutiun party office,
R. Hovannisian met with Todor Marinov Staykov, the Ambassador of
Bulgaria to Armenia, and Charles Lonsdale, the Ambassador of United
Kingdom to RA, on April 1 in the National Assembly.