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    Emil Lazarian
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Vladimir Vardanyan named new chair of PACE Sub-Committee on Human Rights

Panorama, Armenia
Jan 30 2020
Politics 11:42 30/01/2020Armenia

A member of Armenia’s delegation to the PACE, Vladimir Vardanyan has been elected Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on Human Rights.

Vladimir Vardanyan, who heads the Armenian National Assembly’s Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs, represents the My Step alliance faction.

Edmon Marukyan, another member of the Armenian delegation who heads the Bright Armenia faction, has been elected First Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, one of the most important PACE committees. The committee has three vice chairmen.

Marukyan had been nominated by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). The PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights is composed of 91 members representing the national parliaments of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe. The committee has three sub-committees.

PACE is holding its winter session in Strasbourg from January 27-31.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS