YEREVAN, JUNE 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The PACE Co-rapporteurs on Armenia presented their report on activity of democratic institutions in Armenia at the PACE Monitoring Committee June 5 sitting in Paris. According to Armen Rustamian, a member of the Armenian delegation in PACE taking part in the sitting, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, an ARFD member, the Co-rapporteurs, in essence, presented their preliminary interpretations and estimations on the process of fulfillment of PACE resolutions by Armenia, without the draft resolution, conclusion, and proposals. The discussion of the latter was postponed: it will take place in Strasbourg after the scheduled visit of Co-rapporteurs George Colombier (France) and John Prescott (United Kingdom) to Armenia to take place on June 15-18. The discussion of the process of Armenia's fulfilling the resolutions and proposals is envisaged at PACE summer plenary session's June 24 sitting. In their report presented in Paris the Co-rapporteurs, in general, touched upon four problems, which in the future will be also touched upon by the draft resolution to be introduced. According to A. Rustamian, these are problems regarding revision of the law On Holding of Gatherings and Meetings and its use, holding of independent and reliable investigation of the 2008 March events, as well as release of persons not having a special relation to acts of violence. A necessity of carrying out many-sided and profound reforms through an open dialogue with involvement of all political forces was also accentuated, which proceeds from the directions outlined by point 8 of PACE 2008 Resolution N 1609.

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