PACE CO-RAPPORTEURS FOR ARMENIA OFFER TO DISPOSE THIS COUNTRY’S VOTING RIGHTS
Azeri Press Agency
Dec 18 2008
Azerbaijan
Baku. Lachin Sultanova-APA. Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs for Armenia
offer to dispose this country’s voting rights, PACE Monitoring
Committee co-rapporteur for Azerbaijan Andres Herkel, who attended
the Committee’s Paris meeting, told APA.
He said report on fulfilling of PACE resolutions 1609/1620 about
the situation of democratic institutions in Armenia was heard at the
meeting and it was concluded that the issue of political prisoners is
still topical in the country. The Committee urged its co-rapporteurs
to visit Armenia again until the January session and to learn the
situation.
Russia-Georgia relations were also on the focus of the Paris
meeting. PACE members expressed their concern over this issue. They
stated that Russia didn’t fulfill its duties to withdraw troops from
the territories not related to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, to create
opportunities for the internally displaced persons to return home,
particularly to fulfill PACE summon to eliminate its decision to
recognize Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence. Herkel said both
issues would be widely discussed at the PACE January session.