PACE Monitoring Committee Co-Rapporteurs In Armenia

PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE CO-RAPPORTEURS IN ARMENIA

National Assembly of RA
June 13 2008
Armenia

On June 16 Mr John Prescott and Mr Georges Colombier, co-rapporteurs
of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe, will arrive in Yerevan.

On June 16 the co-rapporteurs’ meeting with the Special representative
of CE General Secretary Mrs. Bojana Urumova is scheduled.

The Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Mr
Tigran Torosyan, head of the NA delegation in PACE Mr Davit Harutyunyan
and head of the NA Heritage Faction Mr Raffi Hovannisian will receive
the co-rapporteurs in the National Assembly.

On the same day meetings are scheduled with Mr Serzh Sargsyan,
President of the Republic of Armenia, Mr Edvard Nalbandyan, Foreign
Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Mr Aghvan Hovsepyan, Prosecutor
General of the Republic of Armenia, Mr Armen Harutyunyan, Defender
of Human Rights of the Republic of Armenia, members of the working
group coordinating the fulfillment of the PACE Resolution 1609,
Mr Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the lawyers of the detained opposition
political figures.

On June 17 Mr Georges Colombier, PACE Monitoring Committee
co-rapporteur, will meet the representatives of the extra-parliamentary
opposition forces, public organizations, the wives, mothers, sisters
of the persons arrested in connection with March 1-2 events.

In the National Assembly meetings are scheduled with the
representatives of the political coalition and members of the working
group of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on the
Reforms of the Electoral Code.

On the same day Mr Artur Baghdasaryan, Secretary of the Security
Council will receive the co-rapporteur.

A joint meeting with Mr Dmitri Narumov, co-coordinator of the
OSCE/ODIHR Monitoring Group in the Tracks of the Persons Detained
After Presidential Election, is scheduled.