NA PRESIDENT MET WITH PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION OF CE PRESIDENT
Panorama.am
17:11 03/04/2008
Today the chairman of the National Assembly Tigran Torosyan met with
the president of the parliamentary commission of the Council of Europe
Luis Maria de Pucchi. According to the official web site of the NA the
key point of the discussion was the activities of democratization in
Armenia, presidential elections, post elections situation, and the
proposals of the PCCE in this regard.
Tigran Torosyan highly evaluated the balanced approach and
announcements of the PCCE concerning the recent situations in Armenia
signifying the importance of CE role and mission in the salvation of
those problems. He also highly evaluated John Prescott’s leadership
during those days. He said that in Prescott’s report the elections
and the post election period were clarified and not mixed. As for the
changes in the RA law on "Conducting meetings rallies, demonstrations"
he said that as soon as the article was accepted they sent it to
the Venice Commission and received appropriate comments. But another
meeting-discussion will be held on 15-16 April on this regard.
The president of the PCCE said that the Council of Europe is
really concerned with the post election situation in Armenia and
said that they are longing to establish democracy and justice in
Armenia. According to the president Armenia is a member country of
the Council of Europe and the commission will do what is possible to
reestablish the stability and democracy in the country.