Author: Kalantarian Kevo

YEREVAN STANDS FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROBLEM – MINISTER

Interfax
Jan 16 2012
Russia

Armenia calls for peaceful settlement of the situation around the
Iranian nuclear program, Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian
told a Monday press conference.

“We favor peaceful settlement of the Iranian nuclear problem at
negotiations,” he said.

Yerevan expressed its position during an Armenian visit of the Iranian
president in December 2011, he said.

“We confirm it now,” the minister added.

RUSSIA-ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN TOP-LEVEL MEETINGS ON KARABAKH PROVE EFFECTIVE -FM NALBANDYAN

ITAR-TASS
January 16, 2012 Monday 08:36 PM GMT+4
Russia

The format of trilateral meetings between the presidents of Russia,
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh has proved viable and
effective, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan said.

“I think, actually I am confident that meetings in this format will
continue,” he said on Monday, January 16.

According to the minister, “the agreement on a new trilateral meeting
has been reached. Its place and time will be announced in due time
as the sides deem necessary,” he said.

“The year 2011 confirmed that as far as the Karabakh settlement is
concerned the position of Armenia is in harmony with that of the
international community,”: Nalbandyan said.

The Russian president hosted a meeting of the Armenia and Azerbaijani
leaders in Sochi on March 5, 2011, where they agreed to try to solve
all questions peacefully and investigate incidents on the ceasefire
line with the participation of representatives of the parties involved.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan earlier reiterated Armenia’s
commitment to a speedy resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
on the basis of international law and join statements of the Minsk
Group co-chairmen.

“We firmly believe that a new war cannot resolve the conflict,”
Sargsyan said.

In his opinion, “confrontation will only lead to destabilisation,
provoke tensions and arms race, and further aggravate interstate
contradictions, foment ethnic and religious strife, and threatens
the security of other countries.”

“Over the last several years the leaders of the OSCE Minsk Group have
been taking active steps in order to assist the parties in finding
peaceful solutions to the conflict,” the president said.

“We are thankful to the co-chairing countries, the leaders of Russia,
France and the United States for their mediating efforts,” he said.

Sargsyan said earlier that his country would do everything it can to
resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh issue peacefully.

“We will do everything we can to solve the Karabakh problem
peacefully,” the president said.

“The [settlement] process is underway, and we are acting constructively
in this process,” Sargsyan said.

He said that allegations about international pressure on Armenia were
“an exaggeration”.

“The co-chairing countries [in the OSCE Minsk Group] are seeking
to harmonise the positions of all conflicting parties – Armenia,
Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan,” the president said. “This process
has proved difficult, but that’s how it should be – we have never
expected an easy solution.”

“We will do our best to find a fair solution,” Sargsyan said. “The
stronger we are, the more combat capable our army is, the better our
positions at the talks will be,” he said.

However Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev said that the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could be resolved only if the territorial
integrity of his country was ensured.

“The conflict can be resolved only with in the framework of the
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. There is no other solution,
and I have no doubts that Azerbaijan will restore its territorial
integrity,” the head of state said.

He stressed that Azerbaijan was seeking to solve the issue
“peacefully”.

“We hope for a peaceful resolution yet. To this end, the Armenian side
should unconditionally comply with the resolutions of international
organisations, including the U.N. Security Council, free the occupied
territories, and Azerbaijani citizens should return to their homes.

After that peace and stability will come to the region,” Aliyev said.

He said the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was the “biggest source of
threat” in the region.

Azerbaijan and its people “will never allow a second Armenian state
to be created on their historical land”, he said.

“Nagorno-Karabakh will never get independence. The people who live
in Nagorno-Karabakh now, and the Azeris will certainly return there
should live in autonomy. This is a well known international approach,”
the president said.

He made it clear that Azerbaijan would “never step aside from its
position of principle”.

“The Karabakh conflict is a real threat to the region,” the president
said.

The head of state called for a speedy and fair settlement in Karabakh
on the basis of international law. “We understand that major states
want the region to live in peace and stability, without war. We want
that too. But this does not mean that the conflict should remain
frozen,” he said.

Aliyev said he was hoping “positive tendencies” in the negotiations.

The president said earlier that the Karabakh talks were in “a crucial
stage”.

“Negotiations over the past five to six years have led to the drafting
of proposals on the settlement, which were officially presented to
the parties to the conflict by international mediators – co-chairmen
of the OSCE Minsk Group. These proposals are balanced and can lead
to a peaceful settlement of the problem within the framework of
Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity,” Aliyev said.

Speaking of the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh, he said it was
“a matter of the future”.

“We have said many times that we will never agree to any status for
Nagorno-Karabakh outside Azerbaijan, and international law supports
our positions,” the president said.

Aliyev urged Armenia to continue peace talks on Nagorno-Karabakh.

ANDREI RYABOV: “ARMED CONFLICT MAY LEAD TO IRREPARABLE CONSEQUENCES FOR RUSSIA’S SOUTH CAUCASUS POLICIES”
David Stepanyan.

Vestnik Kavkaza
Jan 17 2012
Russia

Andrei Ryabov, expert from Moscow Karnega Research Center, told VK
about the main threats that might undermine Russian influence on the
South Caucasus, as well as about Moscow’s choice of opportunities to
maintain peace in the region and about the role of the US in creation
of the ‘regulated chaos’ atmosphere. He also touched upon the issue
of OSCE Minsk Group efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

– OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs keep trying to find a peaceful solution
to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. What prognoses could you make on
the prospects of these efforts?

– In general, Russian and foreign experts agree that the threat
of a new violent breakout in the Nagorno-Karabakh is a distinct
possibility. It seems, however, that a solid and rational position of
the mediator powers, especially Russia, may prove efficient in keeping
the conflict is a ‘frozen’ stage for a rather long period of time
despite the desire of both sides to tip the military balance. However,
everyone, including the conflict parties, understands that a new armed
conflict in this region (in the Wider West Asia as the Americans call
it) would lead to grave consequences for all its countries, and not
only for South Caucasian states. First of all, I mean the threat to
Russian interests in Armenia and Azerbaijan. A new Nagorno-Karabakh
war would have devastating effect on Russia’s authority on the
South Caucasus, and Russia has considerable strategic interests in
Armenia and energetic ties to Azerbaijan. These problems are becoming
more and more topical for Russia as we can’t seem to agree with our
Western partners on oil and gas transportation trough South Caucasian
territory. For example, Turkey refused to participate in our ‘Southern
Stream’ project.

– How could you characterize the trilateral meetings of Russian
president Dmitry Medvedev with his Azerbaijani and Armenian
counterparts?

– The very fact that there were 6 of them during Medvedev’s presidency
indicates that the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is one of
the most important priorities for Russia. The general expert opinion
on the matter is that now there are no favorable preconditions
for resolving the conflict and they are unlikely to appear any
time soon, so the only thing that mediators can do is to guard the
status-quo and prevent a new war from breaking out. After the August
War with Georgia there were a lot of concerns that Russia intends
make a ‘general revision’ of the region’s state borders/ However,
Russia obviously had no plans like that or even means to carry them
out. Russia decided to observe status-quo. Today, Russian-Georgian
relations seem to be more stable and don’t offer any reasons to
fear any new developments. So now Russia is much more concerned with
the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, as both sides race to increase their
military potentials. And Moscow understands that an armed conflict
might lead to irreparable consequences for all Russian politics on
the South Caucasus. In case of war Russia will lose all its value as
a strategic partner for both sides, that is why Medvedev was trying
so hard to at leas maintain status-quo and why the future president
is likely to carry on with this political course.

– Do other OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs agree with Russia’s position
in the matter? What are their interests in the region?

– No one is interested in a new armed conflict; there are far too
many geopolitical risks to it. US and France are also interested in
maintaining status-quo. Of course, it can’t remain like that forever,
but currently there’s no better alternative. And it seems that Europe
and US have finally come to realize and recognize Russia’s exclusive
position in the matter. The fact that all other co-chairs virtually
recognized their inability to do anything about the conflict during
the Astana OSCE proves the point.

– So you don’t believe that the USA is planning to use the issue
of Iran to pressure Russia into giving up its lead position in the
Karabakh process?

– No, I don’t. I’m not a partisan of the ‘regulated chaos’ theory. I
also don’t believe that US is trying to talk Azerbaijan into offering
its territory as a site of US missile launch against Iran in return
for a permission to break the Karabakh staus-quo. The situation in
the Middle East is far too complicated, and recently got even more
complex after the events of the ‘Arab spring’. Syria is a crucial
link in this region, and how the situation turns out there is yet
unknown. In these conditions it is really hard to make the chaos
‘regulated’ and adapting such a policy would be a mistake for any
state no matter the resources it possesses. Plus there’s the global
economic crisis, so I don’t believe that current US administration
would risk taking such a step.

As for the general pattern of the so-called ‘Arab revolutions’, in the
case of Syria one can see a considerable influence of conservative
Arab states, such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia. They offer the US to
replace Israel as their main ‘western partner’ and demonstrate that
their moderate Islam open to certain modernization is much better than
the alternative. As for Libya, one can see that the events played
out just like the West planned. But this game is dangerous not only
for Libyans, but for the West as well as there is no foretelling how
the situation will end.

RUSSIAN ANALYST EXPECTS NO BREAKTHROUGH OF FORTHCOMING MEETING IN SOCHI

Tert.am
18.01.12

In An Interview With 1news.Az, Aleksandr Sotnichenko, Associate
Professor, Chair of Theory and History of International Relations,
Saint Petersburg State University, and Leading Analyst at the Saint
Petersburg Center for Modern Near Eastern Studies, noted that no
breakthrough in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process should be expected
in the near future.

“The political leaders will continue their meetings, but ‘reduced
tension’ will be the only result,” Sotnichenko said.

The Sochi meeting late this month is going to be Russian President
Dmitri Medvedev’s “farewell meeting,” with no breakthrough to be
expected from it.

With respect to the impact the Iran-related developments may have on
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the expert said: “The West is not yet
expected to launch a military operation against Iran. On the other
hand, we cannot say they are going to leave Iran alone. Should the
US and its allies decide in favor of a full-scale operation, it will
prove a new problem for Baku, and resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict will be delayed.”

As regards Turkish-French relations, Sotnichenko said: “I think the
critical period has passed. Washington is unlikely to let the conflict
go too far. Paris, in turn, has lately been attentive to the opinions
voiced overseas. However, the conflict itself has demonstrated the
wide gap between Europe and Turkey, finally resolving the problem of
Turkey’s integration into the European Union in favor of skeptical
Europeans. I think it will incite the Turkish leadership to seek
for new ways of integration, including integration with the Eurasian
union.”

THERE IS 80-PERCENT DISTRUST TOWARD JUDICIAL POWER – ARMENIAN JUSTICE MINISTER

NEWS.am
January 18, 2012 | 10:50

YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Minister of Justice, Hrayr Tovmasyan, received
Tuesday Lord John Prescott, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe (PACE) Co-Rapporteur on Armenia, and informed him about
Armenia’s judicial reforms.

At the beginning of the meeting, Prescott conveyed his observations
from his visit to Armenia and said: “The situation was severe four
years ago, but now the atmosphere and the expectations have changed,
which is truly a positive phenomenon,” Justice Ministry informed
Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Upon the request of the guest, Minister Tovmasyan gave details on
Armenia’s ongoing judicial reforms and the future action plans.

Hrayr Tovmasyan also informed that, in line with survey results,
there is still eighty-percent distrust toward Armenia’s judicial
power. But he added that a judicial reform concept is designed to
resolve the existing problems, and that it will be introduced for the
President’s approval, but, prior to that, it will be openly discussed
in Armenia’s parliament on Friday.

And reflecting on the upcoming parliamentary elections, Armenia’s
Justice Minister stressed that the President’s main task is to secure
elections that are transparent and in keeping with European standards.

APPEL DES PERSONNALITES : PLEINE PAGE DANS LIBERATION
Ara

armenews.com
mercredi 18 janvier 2012

Comme l’a ecrit Elie Wiesel, ” tolerer le negationnisme, c’est tuer
une seconde fois les victimes “. Aussi convient- il de saluer le vote
de l’Assemblee nationale du 22 decem- bre 2011 qui s’est prononcee en
faveur de la transposition de la deci- sion-cadre de l’Europe contre
le racisme, la discrimination et le nega- tionnisme. Contrairement
aux lieux communs qui ont circule a la faveur de la discussion
publique autour de ce texte, ce dernier ne constitue pas une loi dite
memorielle, l’his- toire ayant deja ete ecrite par les historiens. Ce
document relève du Droit.

En donnant suite a cette directive europeenne, les deputes ont accorde
aux garants de la memoire des vic- times de ” tous les genocides recon-
nus par la loi ” (Shoah, genocide armenien), la possibilite juridique
deles defendre contre les formes les plus ” outrancières ” du deni.

Est notamment vise le negation- nisme d’Etat dont les autorites turques
successives organisent la promotion jusque sur le territoire de la
Republique francaise. Ainsi les elus sont-ils restes dans leur fonction
qui consiste a preser- ver la dignite humaine, premier fondement
du preambule de la Declaration universelle des droits de l’Homme,
et a legiferer pour preve- nir tout risque de trouble a l’ordre public.

Pour qu’enfin ce texte prenne force de loi, nous encourageons le presi-
dent de la Republique, le gouverne- ment ainsi que les principaux
partis, de gauche comme de droite, qui ont soutenu l’adoption de
cette loi a confirmer leur geste en permettant sa ratification par
le Senat dans la legislature actuelle.

Un appel lance par CHARLES AZNAVOUR, ROBERT GUEDIGUIAN, SERGE
KLARSFELD, BERNARD-HENRI LEVY, MICHEL ONFRAY, EROL OZKORAY.

Simon Abkarian, artiste. Benjamin Abtan, secretaire general
du European Grassroots Antiracist Movement. Janine Altounian,
psychanaliste. Sylvie Andrieux, deputee. Isidore Aragones, president
d’honneur du CRIF. Ariane Ascaride, artiste. Serge Avedikian, artiste.

Vincent Baguian, artiste. Jean-Luc Bennahmias, depute europeen. Vanik
Berberian, president de l’Association des Maires Ruraux de France.

Rolland Blum, depute. Valerie Boyer, deputee. Jean-Paul Bret, maire
de Villeurbanne. Didier Bruère Dawson, avocat. Luc Carvounas, senateur.

Laurent Cathala, depute. Christian Charrière-Bournazel, avocat. Eric
Civanyan, realisateur. Robert Charvin, profes- seur emerite de
l’universite de Nice. Pascale Crozon, depute. Gerard Dedeyan,
historien. Patrick Devedjian, president du CG des Hauts-de-Seine.

Youri Djorkaëff, foot- balleur. Frederic Encel, professeur en
geopolitique. Sophie Fontanel, ecrivain. Caroline Fourest, journaliste,
essayiste. Bruno Gilles, senateur. Jonathan Hayoun, presi- dent de
l’UEJF. Bernard Host, membre senior de l’Institut universitaire de
France. Christiane Hummel, senatrice. Alain Jakubowicz, president de
la LICRA. Henri Jibrayel, depute. Philippe Kaltenbach, senateur. Arno
Klarsfeld, avocat. Beat Klarsfeld, presidente de l’association des fils
et filles de deportes. Alain Kremenetzky, delegue gene- ral d’Europe
de la Memoire. Pierre Lambicchi, Grand Maitre GODF 2008/2010. Pascal
Legitimus, artiste.

Mathieu Madenian, artiste. Richard Mallie, depute. Jacky Mamou,
president du collectif Urgence Darfour. Andre Manoukian, artiste.

Herve Marseille, senateur. Christophe Masse, vice-President du CG des
Bouches du Rhône. Evagoras Mavrommatis, president des Chypriotes de
France et d’Europe. Jacques Michel, professeur a l’Institut d’Etudes
politiques de Lyon. Anne-Marie Mitterrand, ecrivain. Claire Mouradian,
historienne. Frederic Nevchehirlian, artiste. Vincent Niore, avocat.

Roland Povinelli, Senateur. Francois Pupponi, depute. Jean-Michel
Quillardet, ancien Grand Maitre du GODF, president de l’Observatoire
International de la Laïcite. Jean-Baptiste Racine, professeur des
universites. Serge Romana, presi- dent de CM 98. Rene Rouquet,
depute-maire. Levon Sayan, producteur. Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg,
ancien ministre. Helène Segara, artiste. Antoine Sfeir, journa- liste.

Raffy Shart, ecrivain. Dominique Sopo, president de SOS Racisme.

Pierre-Andre Taguieff, directeur de Recherche au CNRS. Yves Ternon,
historien. Alain Terzian, producteur. Guy Tessier, depute. Dominique
Tian, depute. Valerie Toranian, journaliste. Andre Touati, conseiller
de l’Ordre GODF. Francis Veber, cineaste. Charles Villeneuve,
journaliste. Meïr Waintrater, journaliste. Regine Waintrater,
psychanalyste, maître de conferences. Clement Yana, president d’honneur
du CRIF.

UN RASSEMBLEMENT CITOYEN AURA LIEU LE 23 JANVIER 2012 DEVANT LE SENAT
À 14 HEURES

CCAF (Conseil de Coordination des organisations Armeniennes de France)
[email protected]

BURIAL OF JUSTICE
by YAVUZ BAYDAR

Today’s Zaman
Jan 17 2012
Turkey

No matter if it is summer or winter, our memory is still fresh with
pain. I recall the heat of July 2007 when we, colleagues and friends
of Hrant Dink, were stuffed into a tiny hall in a courthouse in
Ä°stanbul, risking suffocation. This trial started five months after
Dink’s assassination; a huge setback to all those who hoped for change.

Yesterday in an unusually snowy night that covered the city with a
white carpet, I walked into a same hall, to witness the end of the
legal process, with much less hope than all the previous sittings I
had attended.

The usual crowd had shrunk to a smaller group and only three of the
accused (the total is 20) stood at the stand. The rest — not arrested
or later released — were absent. As Erhan Tuncel, the last person to
speak, took the floor for a final plea, it was easy see on the faces of
the attendants that the last thing this trial would serve was justice.

In July 2011, the murderer, Ogun Samast was sentenced to 22 years of
imprisonment, in a court for the underaged, after judges confirmed
he was 17 when he pulled the trigger. Two main figures were left
in the trial: Yasin Hayal, who the lawyers of the Dink family have
charged as the person who “prepared” and “pushed” Samast to commit
the murder, and Tuncel, an informant for local intelligence, who
reported to the police and the National Intelligence Organization
(MÄ°T). It was important to see what these two would say, in order to
properly understand the vast and complicated network that is strongly
suspected to have been behind the heinous crime. “Strongly suspected”
is the polite, frequently used description here.

Trial after trial we witnessed a watering-down of the essence of
the case, which yesterday was reduced to these two men, who both
felt that they had been used as scapegoats by all the others, who
apparently knew of their activities, encouraged them, and stood by
when the murder was committed. So yesterday one point became clear: in
his long plea, filled with a gibberish that was at times reminiscent
of the Mehmet Ali Agca case, Tuncel accused Hayal of being part of a
secret network — meaning Ergenekon or another network linked to it —
and defended himself and his superiors in the police force.

We have already known of Hayal’s connections with the local military
(gendarmerie); Tuncel helped confirm that the apparent cover-up of
the important details in the Dink murder case was a result of a huge
struggle between the military and the police, with a lot of loose ends
left deliberately unaddressed. This also confirmed how politically
sensitive the case has been, judging also by the fact that the upper
echelons have managed to divide journalists to “cover” only one side
of the story (we have many books on the murder; books that “fight”
one another) and ignore the other side.

Most of us in the media who have covered similar political crimes
are now fully convinced that the Dink trial turned into a process
where all the shadowy power networks, also known as the deep state,
were not only left undiscovered, but protected. The evidence in the
files and the clues that were not scrutinized will never convict
those three people. Historically, we have a machinery of murder that
has operated with an ideology causing a deadly blend of ideas that
undermine democratization, target non-Muslims, spread terror and invite
the military to reaffirm its iron-fisted control over the society.

The successful attempt to limit the scope of the trial will shed
light on the persistent pattern within the “deep state” to protect
itself, and the choice of political authorities to “go along with it”
can only explain the limitations of the power of the judiciary today.

“Sacrificing justice” before a bureaucracy which protects criminal
cells within, because the victim was Armenian is a great shame
for Turkey.

What the “justice” left us with, at the end of this trial, was massive
amount of acquittals of 16 people; practically releasing Erhan Tuncel
from prison by a “punishment” that has nothing to do with the murder
(disconnecting him from the Dink case altogether) and leaving the
scene only with two people chosen as scapegoats.

The case may be technically over, but it will fail to satisfy
consciences around the world. It only fuels the pursuit of justice.

KARABAKH MAY DISCUSSED AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

News.Az
Tue 17 January 2012 06:43 GMT | 6:43 Local Time

The issues of ‘The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan’
and ‘Protracted conflicts in GUAM area’ might be submitted for
discussion within the framework of the UN General Assembly’s 66th
session in the coming month.

‘Those topics are still remain on the Assembly’s agenda’, UN News
Centre representative reports.

Both issues under numbers 35 and 39 – ‘Protracted conflicts in the
GUAM area and their implications for international peace, security
and development’ and ‘The situation in the occupied territories
of Azerbaijan’ were proposed by Azerbaijan and GUAM, and as the
discussions originally was scheduled for 12 December 2011, they will
be considered at a later date in the resumed part, to be announced,
APA reports.

THE ARMENIAN PILOT IN SUDAN IS FREE AND SECURE
Anna Nazaryan

“Radiolur”
17.01.2012 15:17

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia has established contact
with the Armenian citizen in Sudan,” MFA Spokesman Tigran Balayan told
“Radiolur.”

“He is free and secure and has no problems with the authorities of
that country,” Tigran Balayan said.

It was reported earlier that the crew of the An-32, had been detained
in the southern Sudanese city of Sardzhas. According to the website of
the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs, the crew, includes citizens
of Ukraine, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Sudan.

Moscow has demanded that the government of Southern Sudan immediately
report on the reasons for the detention.

The aircraft was performing flights for the Sudanese oil company
between Khartoum, Sardzhas, El Felludzha, and El Obeid.

The crew was arrested immediately after the start of loading operations
at the airport in Sardzhas.

LE CONSEIL DE L’EUROPE S’INTERESSE A LA CAMPAGNE ELECTORALE ARMENIENNE
Gari

armenews.com
mardi 17 janvier 2012

Des representants de l’Assemblee parlementaire du Conseil de l’Europe
(APCE) arrivaient le lundi 16 janvier ) Erevan où ils devaient
rencontrer des responsables du pouoir et de l’opposition dans la
perpective des elections legislatives prevues en mai. Les rapporteurs
de l’APCE sur l’Armenie, John Prescott and Axel Fischer, devaient ainsi
rencontrer le president Serge Sarkissian et d’autres representants
du pouvoir, de meme que les representants des principales forces
d’opposition a l’approche d’un scrutin particulièrement surveille,
les autorites armeniennes s’etant engagees a conduire les elections
les plus irreprochables de l’histoire de la Republique armenienne. Les
emissaires de l’Assemblee de Strasbourg devront notamment verifier
si les autorites armeniennes ont pris les dispositions necessaires
pour mettre en conformite le processus electoral avec une resolution
votee par le Conseil de l’Europe en octobre 2011. La resolution,
critiquee par l’opposition armenienne, avait conclu que les autorites
avaient globalement surmonte la periode de troubles et d’agitations
politiques qui avaient suivi les elections presidentielles de fevrier
2008, dont le resultat avait ete conteste par l’opposition. Le
texte souligne que pour eviter la repetition des actes de violence
mortelle observes a Erevan le 1er mars 2008, il fallait organiser
“des elections legislatives authentiquement democratiques”, reformer
les systèmes judiciaire et policier et creer les conditions d’une
“presse pluraliste”. Deux jours avant l’arrivee de la mission de l’APCE
a Erevan, le Parti republicain du president Sarkissian qui contrôle
le Parlement avait fait circuler un projet d’amendement visant a la
creation d’une commission chargee d’elaborer et de faire respecter
un code de bonne conduite a l’usage des legislateurs.