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HEARINGS ON FROZEN CONFLICTS OPEN IN BERLIN
PanARMENIAN.Net
05.11.2007 16:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An event on frozen conflicts organized by the
Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
(PACE) and German Institute for International and Security Affairs
opened in Bundestag today.
Armenia is represented by Davit Harutyunian, head of the RA delegation
to PACE, Armen Rustamian, chairman of the permanent parliamentary
committee on foreign affairs and Karine Ghazinian, RA Ambassador
to Germany.
The event is chaired by Eduard Lintner, chief of PACE Monitoring
Committee.
Peter Semneby, European Union Special representative for the South
Caucasus, Thomas Marker, deputy secretary of Council of Europe Venice
Commission, Sergei Markedonov, Russian political scientist and Bruno
Coppieters, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels
also attended the meeting.
Eduard Lintner making a keynote speech said the Council of Europe
pays attention to the "frozen conflicts" and expressed his anxiety
for the existence of these conflicts in the CE member states.
The other initiator of the event, Dr Uwe Halbach of the German
Institute for International and Security Affairs, also made a
report. He stated that history of several conflicts in former Soviet
countries dates back to the decline of USSR. Dr Halbakh said that
ceasefire is observed on these conflicts at present, but problem was
not solved.
The second part of the event will be dedicated to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict and will be presided by Lord Russell Johnston, the head of
the PACE Ad Hoc Committee. Jonathan Cohen and Nottingham University
professor Stephan Wolf are expected to give reports.
Speeches of the heads of Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations will
be followed by debates, APA reports.
PanARMENIAN.Net
05.11.2007 16:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An event on frozen conflicts organized by the
Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
(PACE) and German Institute for International and Security Affairs
opened in Bundestag today.
Armenia is represented by Davit Harutyunian, head of the RA delegation
to PACE, Armen Rustamian, chairman of the permanent parliamentary
committee on foreign affairs and Karine Ghazinian, RA Ambassador
to Germany.
The event is chaired by Eduard Lintner, chief of PACE Monitoring
Committee.
Peter Semneby, European Union Special representative for the South
Caucasus, Thomas Marker, deputy secretary of Council of Europe Venice
Commission, Sergei Markedonov, Russian political scientist and Bruno
Coppieters, Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels
also attended the meeting.
Eduard Lintner making a keynote speech said the Council of Europe
pays attention to the "frozen conflicts" and expressed his anxiety
for the existence of these conflicts in the CE member states.
The other initiator of the event, Dr Uwe Halbach of the German
Institute for International and Security Affairs, also made a
report. He stated that history of several conflicts in former Soviet
countries dates back to the decline of USSR. Dr Halbakh said that
ceasefire is observed on these conflicts at present, but problem was
not solved.
The second part of the event will be dedicated to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict and will be presided by Lord Russell Johnston, the head of
the PACE Ad Hoc Committee. Jonathan Cohen and Nottingham University
professor Stephan Wolf are expected to give reports.
Speeches of the heads of Azerbaijani and Armenian delegations will
be followed by debates, APA reports.