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[09:15 pm] 15 January, 2009

Serzh Sargsyan received today Co-reporters of the PACE Monitoring
Committee John Prescott and George Colombie. During the meeting the
issues discussed were the fulfillment of the requirements of the PACE
resolutions 1609 and 1620.

According to the press release, Serzh Sargsyan expressed gratitude to
the co-reporters for their visit to Armenia before the PACE plenary
session and underscored that the further deepening of democracy is
in the interest of Armenia and highly valued the role of the Council
of Europe. Serzh Sargsyan reaffirmed the resoluteness of the Armenian
authorities to implement the propositions stated in the resolutions.

Secretary of the National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan told
the co-reporters that there has been much progress in the fulfillment
of resolutions 1609 and 1620. Baghdasaryan went on to say that
Armenia has undertaken reforms and plans to implement them and the
application of sanctions against Armenia during the PACE January
session may hold the country back from making those reforms. Thus,
the Armenian administration expects a balanced position from the PACE,
particularly proposals and deadlines for reforms.

Let us remind that the PACE had given Armenia until January 2009 to
meet the requirements stated in the resolutions during its session
back in June of last year.