Armenian issue to be raised at the Monitoring Assembly
The spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council is due at 11.30 (local time). PACE delegates are already arriving in Strasbourg.
The Armenian delegation features Davit Harutyunyan, the Chairman of the Armenian Delegation to PACE, Avet Adonts, Hermine Naghdalyan, Zaruhy Postanjyan and Artsrun Aghajanyan. Heritage Party member Zaruhy Postanjyan replaces Raffi Hovanisian. Armenian delegates Armen Rustamyan, Naira Zohrabyan and Grigori Margaryan are not participating at the Assembly's April session.
The Monitoring Assembly convenes its sitting at 2-3 p.m. today.
On April 2 the PACE co-rapporteurs on Armenia announced that they were going to report back to the Monitoring Committee during the April part-session on the progress made by Armenia in implementing Resolutions 1609 (2008), 1620 (2008) and 1643 (2009), especially with regard to the persons deprived of their liberty in relation to the events of 1 and 2 March 2008
Zaruhy Postanjyan is going to raise the issues existing in Armenia after the March 1-2 events at the Monitoring Asssembly.
Mrs. Postanjyan will be making a speech at today's discussion on "Human Rights Protection during the State of Emergency."
Karine Asatryan
Strasbourg
