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    "ARMENIA STARTED A WAR WITH THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE"

    http://a1plus.am/en/politics/2010/07/7/hovhannes-hovhannisyan
    06:59 pm | Today | Politics

    "Armenia-CoE relations are periled," Hovhannes Hovhannisyan, former
    chair of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Council of Europe
    (PACE) said on July 7.

    "It seems as if the parties have started a small war: the Armenian
    side has expressed its distrust for the PACE President, delegates and
    co-rapporteurs. But Armenia cannot win this war," Mr. Hovhannisyan
    said.

    Remind that Armenian Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan announced
    that PACE President's unawareness of June 18 incident at the contact
    line between Azerbaijani and NKR Armed Forces causes bewilderment
    and the head of the Armenian delegation to PACE David Harutyunyan
    blamed PACE Monitoring Committee Co-rapporteur Goran Lindblad for
    "political immaturity."

    Hovhannes Hovhannisyan says the Armenian delegation is partly to
    blame for the current situation though the main reason is the change
    of international attitude towards Armenia.

    "Membership to the Council of Europe was to ensure democratic values
    in Armenia and guarantee protection of human rights. In fact, the
    situation is worse today than it was in 1999 and 2000," Hovhannisyan
    said. "And the reason for this is that the Armenian side is constantly
    lying. The CoE finally got tired of us and demanded to call things
    by their right names. The structure simply lost confidence in Armenia."

    To come out of this mess, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan suggests freezing
    membership to the structure, changing the Armenian delegates or
    meeting the CoE commitments.




    From: A. Papazian
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