FAILURE TO MEET COE COMMITMENTS DOESN’T LEAD TO IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.11.2008 18:08 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Joining the Council of Europe in 2001, Armenia
undertook certain obligations. Presently, the republic is in process of
fulfillment, said the head of the Armenian delegation to Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe.

"Armenia’s progress in fulfilling PACE resolutions 1609 and 1620 will
be considered during PACE January session," Davit Harutyunyan said.

"Armenia has chosen the way toward the CoE. If a member country fails
to meet its commitments, it become a topic of discussion but doesn’t
necessarily lead to imposition of sanctions. The problems addressed
in PACE resolutions are rather political than legal," he said, adding
that CoE Commissioner for Human Right Thomas Hammarberg is expected
to visit Armenia in November.

On 17 April 2008, the Parliamentary Assembly adopted Resolution 1609
on the functioning of democratic institutions in Armenia, in which it
set out four concrete requirements for the resolution of the political
crisis that ensued after the presidential election in Armenia