PACE TO DISCUSS DEPRIVATION OF VOTING RIGHTS OF THE ARMENIAN DELEGATION

Baku, January 27 (AzerTAc). Today, the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe in its winter session in Strasbourg will decide
whether to recommend the Assembly to suspend the voting rights of its Armenian
members.
As noted on the official site of the Organization, in the second day of session the
parliamentarians will discuss execution by Armenia of the Resolutions 1609 and 1620,
accepted by PACE in April 2008.
The Committee considers unacceptable that people can be accused and deprived of
freedom owing to the political reasons, and asks Assembly to suspend the vote of
this delegation until the authorities clearly will not show the political will to
settlement of this problem.
As known, the Armenian opposition since February 20, 2008 conducted in the center of
Yerevan a protest action, showing discontent with results of presidential election
on which Serzh Sarkisyan won. During the protest actions on March 1 the
demonstrators clashed with representatives of the law-enforcement bodies, as a
result of which ten persons were lost, over 200 wounded.
Earlier, the PACE has repeatedly threatened to impose such sanctions if the
authorities of Armenia fail to comply with its resolutions on Armenia
On December 17 last year the PACE Monitoring Committee suggested to suspend the vote
of the Armenian delegation during this session of Assembly.