PACE GRANTED ARMENIA TIME TILL APRIL TO FULFILL ITS COMMITMENTS
Regnum
Jan 27 2009
Russia
On January, 27 PACE finished its winter session and adopted a
resolution 11786 on Armenia, reports a REGNUM correspondent from
Strasbourg. The Armenian parliament was granted time till PACE’s
April session for fulfillment commitments to the organization and to
overcome the consequences of the March events.
141 PACE members voted for the resolution, 3 against it, 5 were
neutral.
PACE urged all political parties to avoid interference and politicizing
activity of experts’ group and called on the Armenian government to
create condition for cooperation between state bodies and investigation
group. The Assembly expressed regret at not caring PACE calls on
release of imprisoned people arrested during developments happened on
March 1-2, and not fulfilling the PACE resolutions 1609 and 1620. The
resolution envisages that an investigation carried out on imprisoned
people mostly based on testimonies of the police.