PACE DRAFT RESOLUTION IS AIMED AGAINST REGIME ACTING IN ARMENIA, ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS STATES

Noyan Tapan

Dec 19, 2008

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The draft resolution approved by
the PACE Monitoring Committee "is aimed not against Armenia and its
people, but against the regime acting in Armenia." It was mentioned
in the statement of the Armenian National Congress.

According to the statement, "this decision’s whole responsibility lays
on the very regime, which disregarding both the commitments assumed
by the state and many appeals and requirements of Council of Europe,
European and other authoritative international structures, for many
months keeps in prisons dozens of political prisoners, grossly violates
the most important norms of meetings, marches, freedom of expression,
and human rights."

"Welcoming PACE monitoring group’s latest decision as a step
contributing to restoration of democracy and human rights in Armenia,
the Armenian National Congress once more officially calls international
structures for using only such sanctions, the target of which will be
not the country, but the anti-popular regime and the goal establishment
of democracy and legality in the country," the ANC statement read.