"FACTS NOT CORRESPONDING TO REALITY WILL NOT BE PRESENTED" AT DISCUSSION OF RESOLUTION 1609 IN PACE, ARMENIAN DELEGATION MEMBER SAYS

Noyan Tapan

Ma y 23, 2008

YEREVAN, MAY 23, NOYAN TAPAN. A sitting of the PACE Monitoring
Committee will be held in Kiev. Among issues on the agenda is the
issue of Armenia.

The rapporteurs of the monitoring group visited Armenia on May 10,
the chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Human Rights Protection
and Public Issues, member of Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) faction
Avet Adonts said at the May 23 parliamentary briefing.

Speaking about the discussion on fulfilment of resolution 1609 by
Armenia at the PACE session in a month, A. Adonts noted that the
Armenian delegation will present all the work the authorities have
done and will do in this direction. "Facts not corresponding to reality
will not be presented," the member of the Armenian delegation assured
those present.

A. Adonts expressed a hope that prior to that, the process of
fulfilling the conditions stipulated in the resolution will start,
at least, the NA interim commission on examination of the March 1-2
events will be set up. By a preliminary agreement, the commission
will be formed at the June session of the parliament. It is planned
to hold the second and last readings of the amendments to the draft
law on meetings, assemblies, rallies and demonstrations during the
four-day session of the NA on June 9-11.

According to A. Adonts, depriving Armenia of the right to vote in
the PACE would have a negative impact on the country’s international
rating and the development of its bilateral relations with European
structures and countries so the Armenian authorities must try their
best in order to prevent it. At the same time, the deputy expressed
a conviction that "fulfilment of resolution 1609 will give nothing
if we fail to solve our domestic problems themselves".