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7 March 2008
Hovannisian, Heritage MPs Meet With Bryza, Prescott, Talvitie, Semneby
Yerevan–This evening Heritage Party leader and Armenia’s first Minister of
Foreign Affairs Raffi K. Hovannisian received US Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State, OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Matthew Bryza and Charge d’Affaires
Joseph Pennington. They discussed Armenia’s domestic developments and
regional challenges. Earlier in the day, Bryza met at the US Embassy with
Heritage parliamentarians Anahit Bakhshian and Stepan Safarian. The MPs
presented their views on the avenues for easing the tension which has
mounted in Armenia following the presidential elections held on February 19,
2008.
The same day, Raffi Hovannisian held an official meeting at the National
Assembly with Chairman John Prescott of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe’s (PACE) Ad Hoc Committee which observed the recent
elections. Prescott is back in Yerevan on a post-election fact-finding
mission together with Bas Klein, the deputy head of PACE’s
Interparliamentary Cooperation and Election Observation Department, and
Bojana Urumova, the Secretary General’s representative in Armenia.
Hovannisian, who was joined by MPs Anahit Bakhshian and Vardan Khatchatrian,
and Prescott exchanged analyses of the tragic events that unfolded during
and after the presidential elections as well as of their cause-effect
relationship.
Earlier in the week, Raffi Hovannisian conducted separate in-depth meetings
with the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Heikki
Talvitie and with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus
Ambassador Peter Semneby.
Founded in 2002, Heritage has regional divisions throughout the land. Its
central office is located at 31 Moscovian Street, Yerevan 0002, Armenia,
with telephone contact at (374-10) 536.913, fax at (374-10) 532.697, email
at [email protected] or [email protected], and website at
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
