ARMENIA MAY BECOME WEST’S NEW PARTNER IN CAUCASUS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
30.06.2009 16:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ PACE Resolution 1677 brings the curtain down
on March 1, 2008 incidents and presidential elections in Armenia,
Eurointegration NGO’s chair Karen Bekaryan told a news conference
in Yerevan. "The document should have summed up the results of
previous PACE resolutions on Armenia and indicate further ways of
implementing reforms in the country. Now Armenia has time to focus
on their implementation," Armenian expert said.

In the meantime, the speaker noted that PACE resolution clearly
emphasizes the importance of conducting transparent investigation
into the 10 individuals’ death circumstances, re-establishing the
interim parliamentary committee and submitting to it the materials
collected by the fact-finding group.

PACE’s attitude to Armenia differed from the its approach to
the situation in Moldova, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, the speaker
said. "Such approach can be viewed from two angles: optimistic and
pessimistic. The bad news is that PACE applies double standards in
relation to Armenia. And the good news is that the more closely it
follows the country the more it trusts it," Bekaryan said, adding
that following the August war in South Ossetia, the West has focused
on Armenia, searching a new partner in Caucasus.