PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE TAKES POSITIVE VIEW OF AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES 225 AND 300 OF ARMENIAN CRIMINAL CODE
ArmInfo
2009-04-01 07:43:00
ArmInfo. PACE Monitoring Committee has taken positive view of the
amendments the Parliament of Armenia has made to Articles 225 and
300 of the Armenian Criminal Code, Naira Zohrabyan, a member of the
Armenian delegation to PACE, parliamentarian representing Prosperous
Armenia Party faction, told ArmInfo.
She said the PACE Monitoring Committee Co-rapporteurs for Armenia
George Colombier and John Prescott will assess the fulfillment
of the PACE Resolution No.1643 by Armenia only after the above
amendments are applied in practice. PACE Monitoring Committee met
in Valencia on March 30. The Committee discussed the amendments
to Articles 225 (mass disorders) and 300 (power usurpation) of
the Armenian Criminal Code as well as the proceedings in ‘the Case
of the Seven’. Armenian parliamentarians, the head of the Armenian
delegation to PACE David Haroutiunyan, a member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun
Party faction in the Armenian Parliament Armen Rustamyan, a member of
the Heritage opposition party faction Raffi Hovannisian and non-party
parliamentarian Avet Adonts were present at the meeting.