ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS ARE DISPLEASED
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| 17:53:01 | 04-05-2005 | Politics |
Today RA NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan received the Belgium
Foreign Minister special representative and permanent representative
of Belgium to OSCE Bertran de Krombrug. Vladimir Pryakhin, head of
the OSCE office in Armenia was also present at the meeting.
It was mentioned during the meeting that Armenia meets his commitments,
the Constitutional amendments are being discussed in the Parliament,
and an agreement has been reached over the Electoral Code. A reference
was also made to the combat against corruption the working mechanism
of which is the NA Supervisory Chamber with its investigations in
different spheres.
As a good mechanism of solving regional problems they mentioned
the South Caucasian Parliamentary initiative which turned into a
Parliamentary Assembly. It was mentioned that as a permanent structure
will give the Parliaments of the three countries possibility to
discuss regional political and economical problems.
Mr. Krombrug, as 2006 OSCE chairman-in-office, expressed his readiness
to support the realization of the programs mentioning that it is the
first time he has ever been to Armenia and has a good opportunity to
et acquainted with the political and economical life of Armenia and
the perspectives of development.
In the NA the Belgium Foreign Minister special representative and
permanent representative of Belgium to OSCE Bertran de Krombrug also
met members of NA fractions and groupings.
It was mentioned that parties of different political views are
represented in the National Assembly, but they are all united about
the Karabakh conflict and find that the conflict must be settled by
way of peaceful negotiations. The Karabakh conflict discussion within
the OSCE framework was found important. The Armenian political bodies
expressed their worried about the possibility of transferring the
Karabakh conflict to other structures, especially to PACE.