PACE DECISION NOT TO DEBAR ARMENIA FROM VOTING TO FINALLY LET OFF THE LEASH OF AUTHORITIES: DOMESTIC POLITICAL EXPERT
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ArmInfo
2008-06-26 12:38:00

PACE decision not to debar the Armenian delegation from voting will
finally let off the leash of the country’s authorities, Director
of the Armenian Center of International and Political Studies,
a political expert Aghasi Yenokyan said today in "Mirror" club.

He also said that due to the actions of the European parliamentarians,
the country’s authorities feel impunity, that is testified by the
pre-election and post-election events: March 1 events in Yerevan, a
sharp turnround in prices for essential goods, etc. Some indulgence was
made by the authorities just before June hearings in PACE, however
now when the issue of debarring Armenia from voting is delayed
till January, the authorities will be finally let off the leash,
A. Yenokyan thinks.

Director of the "Caucasus" Institute, a political expert Alexander
Iskandaryan does not agree with him. He said that what happens is
a normal political process of Yerevan- Strasbourg relations. The
European political culture supposes a dialogue and not a boxing,
therefore, one should not transfer the internal struggle in Armenia
onto the pan- European level.

‘PACE is not interested in exposing Armenia to the tough sanctions like
it did with Belarus in due time. PACE is interested in elimination
of the tension and crisis available in the country and prefers to
discuss it at the negotiating table and not under conditions of tough
confrontation’.