PACE WON’T DEPRIVE ARMENIA OF VOTING RIGHTS
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.01.2009 18:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ With 3 votes ‘for’, 141 ‘against’ and 5 abstentions,
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has decided not
to suspend Armenia’s voting rights, the press office of the Armenian
delegation to PACE told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
Declaring it "unacceptable" that persons could be charged and deprived
of their liberty for political motivation in Armenia in relation to
the events of 1 and 2 March 2008, the Monitoring Committee of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on December
17, 2008 recommended suspending the voting rights of Armenia’s
eight-member delegation to the Assembly until the authorities "have
clearly demonstrated their political will to resolve this issue."
The co-rapporteurs visited the country earlier this month, with a
view to reporting back to the Committee on any progress with respect
to the release of these persons.
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