Armenian opposition MPs comment on PACE session

Armenian opposition MPs comment on PACE session

Mediamax news agency
3 May 04

YEREVAN

Artashes Gegamyan and Shavarsh Kocharyan, representing the opposition
in the Armenian delegation in PACE, did not put their signatures under
the initiative to put the issue of the internal political situation in
Armenia on the agenda of PACE’s spring session.

The leader of the National Unity Party [MP of the National Assembly],
Artashes Gegamyan, said this in Yerevan today, Mediamax
reported. According to him, “a number of European parliamentarians”
concerned about “the state of democracy in Armenia” came out with the
initiative to put this issue on the agenda. Justice block
representative Shavarsh Kocharyan denied the authorities’ statements
that the PACE resolution on the situation in Armenia was supported by
the Azerbaijani and Turkish parliamentarians.

The parliamentarian said that Armenian President Robert Kocharyan will
address PACE’s summer session in Strasbourg on 21 June. According to
Shavarsh Kocharyan, “if by this time the authorities do not solve the
problems contained in PACE resolution adopted on 28 April we will
address the president right during the PACE meeting”.