‘WITH THE SAME GOODWILL AND THE SAME RIGOUR"
Karine Asatrian

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[04:31 pm] 29 September, 2008

Though today’s PACE session mostly referred to the Russian-Georgia
conflict PACE President Lluis Maria de Puig also spoke about Armenia
and Azerbaijan in his addressing speech.

"I am referring in particular to Azerbaijan and Armenia, which I
visited over the summer to provide them with political support in
their citizens’ best interests. Last June the Assembly issued concrete
recommendations to these two countries aimed at remedying a number
of problems which prevented them from honouring their commitments as
member states of the Council of Europe. In both cases we are awaiting
convincing results and we will assess them with the same goodwill, but
also the same rigour that we have to apply every time it is a question
of defending our principles and values," said Lluis Maria de Puig.

Note, before today’s session the PACE President managed to answer
four questions posed by reporters. Three of them referred to the
Russian-Georgian conflict.