Armenia's non-coalition-government forces not invited to dinner
reception for PACE election observers - newspaper

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January 19, 2013 | 06:32

YEREVAN. - Solely Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik
Abrahamyan and head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), David Harutyunyan, were on
hand at the diner reception which was held for the PACE election
observation mission delegation on behalf of the NA leader, Zhoghovurd
writes.

`This fact is noteworthy in the sense that, according to protocol,
members of at least the main composition of Armenia's delegation [to
PACE] should have been there. [But] Harutyunyan saw to it, at all
cost, that especially members of the non-coalition[-government] forces
do not attend the dinner, probably not to hamper; they simply were not
invited.

But this fact did not go unnoticed by the Europeans, who asked about
the absence of the other [Armenian] delegation [to PACE] members.
Harutyunyan, who was caught off guard, did not give a clear answer,
[and] he changed the subject.

To Zhoghovurd's query as to why were other members of the [Armenian]
delegation [to PACE] not invited, Harutyunyan responded that this was
not a delegation dinner,' Zhoghovurd writes.