ARMENIA’S IMPLEMENTATION OF RESOLUTIONS 1609 AND 1620 TO BE DISCUSSED AT PACE WINTER SESSION

armradio.am
26.01.2009 11:06

The implementation of Resolution 1633 on the consequences of the
war between Georgia and Russia, adopted in October 2008, and the
humanitarian consequences of the conflict will be one of the highlights
of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE), which will take place in Strasbourg from 26 to 30
January 2009.

The parliamentarians will discuss the reports by Luc Van den Brande
(Belgium, EPP/CD) and Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, ALDE), co-rapporteurs
of the Assembly’s Monitoring Committee, and Corien W.A. Jonker
(Netherlands, EPP/CD), rapporteur of the Committee on Migration,
Refugees and Population, following their visits to these countries.

The PACE Bureau has proposed a current affairs debate on the
situation in Gaza and an urgent debate on the consequences of the
global financial crisis.

The Assembly will also discuss Armenia’s implementation of Resolutions
1609 and 1620, which PACE adopted in April 2008, and will give its
opinion on a proposal by the PACE Monitoring Committee to suspend
the Armenian delegation’s voting rights. The committee considers it
"unacceptable" that persons could be charged and deprived of their
liberty for political reasons and asks the Assembly to suspend
the delegation’s voting rights unti l the authorities have clearly
demonstrated their political will to resolve this issue.

The Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has
been invited to address the Assembly on Tuesday 27 January. In the
context of the Spanish chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers,
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will address the
parliamentarians on Wednesday 28 January. Philippe Kirsch, President
of the International Criminal Court (ICC), will make a speech on
Tuesday 27 during a debate on co-operation with the ICC. Terry Davis,
Secretary General of the Council of Europe, will report on the state
of the Organisation on Monday 26 January.

The agenda also includes attitudes to memorials open to different
historical interpretations, private military and security firms and the
erosion of the state monopoly on the use of force, the investigation
of crimes allegedly committed by high officials during the Kuchma
rule in Ukraine and access to rights for people with disabilities.

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