DON’T THEY TRUST CO-RAPPORTEURS?
Karine Asatryan

A1+
[01:55 pm] 03 October, 2008

Head of the Albanian delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly (PACE), Aleksander Biberaj, has proposed that "the Monitoring
Commission Co-Rapporteurs be regularly changed," Armenian delegate
to the PACE Raffi Hovannisian informed A1+.

Raffi Hovannisian also expressed support for the draft proposal. He
says the project is already a must as many of the delegates have
voiced concern that the structure applies double standards.

During the current PACE session Raffi Hovannisian also suggested
controlling and averting the possible clash of Co-Rapporteurs’
interests, especially in the Monitoring Commission.

The Armenian delegate states that before each monitoring the
Co-Rapporteurs should assert that they "pursue neither financial nor
personal or national interests."