MONITORING GROUP HIGHLIGHTED PROGRESS IN ARMENIA’S COMMITMENTS TO PACE DUE TO ACTIVITY OF THREE POLITICIANS: LOCAL OPPOSITIONIST

ArmInfo
2009-04-01 09:42:00

ArmInfo. The laurels of this ‘progress’ belong to Armenian
Parliamentary Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan, Prosecutor General Aghvan
Hovsepyan and Head of the Armenian delegation to PACE, Chairman
of the Parliamentary Commission for State and Legal Affairs David
Haroutiunyan, Hovhanness Igityan, a member of the Armenian Pan National
Movement (APNM), the former head of the Armenian delegation to PACE
told ArmInfo. ‘The Monitoring group declared in Valencia that Armenia
has registered process in fulfilling the commitments to PACE basing
on the following facts. When the co-rapporteurs arrived in Yerevan
in January and met with Aghvan Hovsepyan, the prosecutor told them
that the law did not allow clear and grounded accusations against
the arrested after March 1 2008. Then the co-rapporteurs submitted
the prosecutor’s complaint to the parliamentary speaker, who, in
his turn, promised to amend the law. As regards David Haroutiunyan,
he has amended the law within the shortest period of time. Basing
on this, the Monitoring group highlighted progress in Armenia’s
commitments to PACE’, Igityan said. PACE Monitoring Committee met
in Valencia on March 30. The Committee discussed the amendments
to Articles 225 (mass disorders) and 300 (power usurpation) of
the Armenian Criminal Code as well as the proceedings in ‘the Case
of the Seven’. Armenian parliamentarians, the head of the Armenian
delegation to PACE David Haroutiunyan, a member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun
Party faction in the Armenian Parliament Armen Rustamyan, a member of
the Heritage opposition party faction Raffi Hovannisian and non-party
parliamentarian Avet Adonts were present at the meeting.