COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA FOR EVALUATING THE PROGRESS
On June 13, Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, is arriving in Yerevan on a three-day visit to evaluate the progress in the process of investigating the post-electoral developments.
As informed by Stefano Montanari, Press Secretary of the Office of the Commissioner, Mr. Hammarberg is to meet with President Serge Sargsyan, representatives of the Parliament, senior government officials, the Prosecutor General and the members of the NA interim committee.
“This visit forms part of the current dialogue with the Armenian authorities and follows the visits paid last October and March. In my recent report concerning Armenia, I called upon the authorities to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the March 1 events. The goal of the visit is to evaluate the progress in the sphere and obtain precise information on the number and legal status of the detainees.
I have also taken into consideration the recently adopted PACE Resolution on the Activities of the Democratic Institutions in Armenia. In this context, I have a goal to ensure international participation in the improvement of the situation with human rights in the country,” Commissioner Hammarberg mentioned.
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THE BARTER OF THE MONITORING COMMITTEE
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- 1864 Birth of satirist Harootyoon Alpiar. He died in 1919.
- 1923 Creation of the Bureau of History of the Communist Party of Armenia as an adjunct to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.
- 1924 Under the initiative of the Norwegian scholar Friedthof Nansen, the League of Nations decides to grant Nansen Passports to the Armenians who had survived the Armenian Genocide.
- 1933 Death of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannissyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1867.
- 1934 First issue of the "Communist" newspaper (property of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Yerevan's City Committee, and the Central Executive Committee of the Armenian SSR).
- 1938 Opening of the first session of the Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet's first convention.
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