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PACE to send monitoring mission to Armenia to get facts on its
internal political processes

YEREVAN. Sept 22

The Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE) will send a mission to Armenia to gather facts due to
internal political processes in the country.

"The PACE Monitoring Committee made a decision to promptly send
co-rapporteurs on Armenia with a mission to gather facts following the
exchange of views on the latest internal political developments in
Armenia," Arpine Hovhannisyan, the deputy speaker of the Armenian
parliament and the head of the Armenian delegation to the PACE, said
on her Facebook account.

"They were instructed to report on the outcomes of the visit at the
first meeting of the committee," she said.

On September 12, Hovhannisyan said that the PACE commission on
political issues and democracy had discussed the case against former
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and the internal political
situation in the country.

The commission would send to the PACE Monitoring Committee a letter
suggesting the monitoring of ensuring the rule of law and independence
of legislative and judicial authorities be conducted in Armenia, she
said.