‘WITH THE SAME GOODWILL AND THE SAME RIGOUR”
Support A1+!Though today's PACE session mostly referred to the Russian-Georgia conflict PACE President Lluis Maria de Puig also spoke about Armenia and Azerbaijan in his addressing speech.
“I am referring in particular to Azerbaijan and Armenia, which I visited over the summer to provide them with political support in their citizens' best interests. Last June the Assembly issued concrete recommendations to these two countries aimed at remedying a number of problems which prevented them from honouring their commitments as member states of the Council of Europe. In both cases we are awaiting convincing results and we will assess them with the same goodwill, but also the same rigour that we have to apply every time it is a question of defending our principles and values,” said Lluis Maria de Puig.
Note, before today’s session the PACE President managed to answer four questions posed by reporters. Three of them referred to the Russian-Georgian conflict.
Karine Asatrian
Strasbourg
