ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN: INTERESTS OF ARMENIA AND PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE CO-REPORTERS COINCIDE
ArmInfo
2010-02-04 11:35:00
ArmInfo. There was nothing sensational in the statement by PACE
Monitoring Committee co-reporters, Naira Zohrabyan, Chairwoman
of the Armenian Parliamentary Committee for European Integration,
told ArmInfo.
To recall, the co-reporters John Prescott and George Colobier declared
that the Armenian authorities should immediately start fulfilling the
recommendation of the Ad Hoc Committee to inquire into the incidents
of March 1-2 2008 in Yerevan. N. Zohrabyan said that the Parliamentary
Commission for State and Legal Affairs is addressing the given issue
and members of the other parliamentary commissions can also participate
in fulfillment of the provisions of the Ad Hoc Committee resolution. As
regards the Election Code reform, the parliamentarian believes that
it is very difficult to find an ideal model of election legislation
that would ensure free and fair elections. "Of course, we can improve
the Election Code, but there is lack of political will to fulfill
the election legislation," she said. Zohrabyan thinks that both the
authorities and the PACE co-reporters are interested in improvement
of the election system in Armenia.