Monitoring visit by PACE co-rapporteurs to Armenia
Strasbourg, 15.06.2009 – Georges Colombier (France, EPP/CD) and John
Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), PACE co-rapporteurs on the monitoring of
the honouring of obligations and commitments by Armenia, will be making
a fact-finding visit to Yerevan on 16 and 17 June 2009, as part of the
implementation of PACE Resolutions 1609 (2008)
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The co-rapporteurs are to meet the President of the Republic Serzh
Sargsyan, the President of the National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian and the Prosecutor
General Aghvan Hovsepyan. Meetings are also scheduled with the Ad hoc
Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the events of 1-2 March 2008 in
Yerevan, the parliamentary delegation to PACE, as well as
representatives of the diplomatic community and civil society. The
report is due to be debated by the Assembly during its plenary session
on 24 June.