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TODAY IN STRASBOURG

Politics


The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe starts in Strasbourg today. The agenda includes a number of key issues among them the implementation of Resolution 1633 on the consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia, adopted in October 2008, and the humanitarian consequences of the conflict, the situation in Gaza and an urgent debate on the consequences of the global financial crisis.


The Assembly will also discuss Armenia’s implementation of Resolutions 1609 and 1620, which PACE adopted in April 2008, and will give its opinion on a proposal by the PACE Monitoring Committee to suspend the Armenian delegation’s voting rights.


But before the parliamentarians discuss the issue on January 27, PACE Co-rapporteurs on Armenia, John Prescott and Georges Colombier, will present their reports in the morning of January 26.


Two senior representatives of the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), Levon Zurabyan and Arman Grigoryan, have left for Strasbourg to attend the PACE winter session.


The oppositionists flew to Paris on the same plane with the Armenian delegates. Then they divided into two groups: one got to Strasbourg by plane, the other-by train.


The Armenian delegates David Harutyunyan, Hermine Naghdalyan, Armen Rustamyan, Avet Adonts, Naira Zohrabyan and Artsruni Aghajanyan arrived in Strasbourg on January 25. Remind that the representative of the Heritage Party has withdrawn from the delegation.


A1+’s journalist Karine Asatryan was unable to get to Strasbourg because of a severe storm. She is presently on a train which has been unable to start for a few hours. The broken trees have blocked the way.