ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN: HARSH ASSESSMENT BY HAMMARBERG RESULT OF PRESSURE BY ARMENIAN OPPOSITION

ArmInfo
2008-12-04 16:03:00

ArmInfo. ‘CE Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg will
soften his assessments of domestic political situation in Armenia
before PACE Winter Session’, Gagik Melikyan, Armenian parliamentarian
from Republican Party of Armenia said to ArmInfo.

He said harsh assessments by Hammarberg during his last
visit to Armenia were result of the pressure by the Armenian
opposition. ‘Hammarberg’s assessments were not impartial’, he said. As
regards the activity of the Parliamentary Interim Commission to
Investigate March 1-2 incidents in Yerevan, Melikyan said: ‘Interim
Commission should fulfill its functions i.e. give political assessment
of the incidents of March. In this context, one can say the Commission
has to some extent deviated from the right way’.