EDWARD NALBANDIAN: "ARMENIA MUST CONTINUE PROCESS OF REFORMS AS IT STEMS FROM INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE"

ARMENPRESS
Dec 17, 2008

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 17, ARMENPRESS: Session of the Monitoring Committee
of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) took
place in Paris during which the draft report on the implementation
of PACE’s 1609 and 1620 resolutions by Armenia was presented by
co-rapporteurs John Prescott and George Columbien.

In this respect at a short briefing Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian said that during the session unfavorable suggestions
concerning Armenia have been made. "It is a working process and only
15 of 80 members of the Committee where present 10 of which voted
for the voiced suggestions. The very issue on Armenia will be put for
voting at the January session of the PACE," the foreign minister noted.

According to him, before the January session co-rapporteurs John
Prescott and George Columbien will visit Armenia. "I think that
in January such developments will take place which will give an
opportunity to review today’s suggestion and approve that Armenia has
carried out the major part of the 1609 and 1620 resolutions. Our
position and approach is that we must continue the process of
reforms as it corresponds to the interests of our people. This is
our decision and not the advice of anyone. Of course we respect all
those establishments the members of which we are and the commitments
we have assumed. We implement them and will continue doing it,"
Edward Nalbandian said.