PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE MUST TRY TO BE IMPARTIAL

PACE Monitoring Committee will convene its regular session in Paris, on September 11, where NA delegation will also participate. We should remind you that the process of the implementation of PACE resolution 1609 and 1620 will be one of the issues of discussion. The correspondent of “Hayots Ashkharh” daily had an interview with the member of NA temporary committee investigating the reasons of March 1-2 developments, Naira Zohrabyan.

“Mrs. Zohrabyan what has been done to perform the proposals made by PACE resolution 1609 and 1620?”
“We have never perceived the proposals recorded in the two PACE resolutions as a normative act and we have never considered each point of the resolution as dogma, which must immediately be carried out. Naturally certain work has been and is being implemented, but we didn’t do certain examination to clarify which point we performed and which we didn’t.
It my view it is impossible to plan the terms of performing this or that point. The most important thing is that the principles of resolution 1609 and 1620 are acceptable for us. In essence they match with the stances of the coalition “Bargavach Hayastan”, “Orinats Yerkir”, and Dashnaktsutyun parties formed with the Republican Party still on March 25 and the clauses of the agreement on cooperation signed by them.
We must take into consideration that the projects mentioned in the coalition agreement and the proposals made in PACE resolution require certain period of time to be completed. That is why it is not realistic to expect all the issues to be solved before September 11. Undoubtedly certain work has already been done and many tough issues are in the process of settlement. But even in case of the most perfect conditions it is not possible to do everything immediately.
I strongly believe our European partners will take this into consideration on September 11 and will try to be impartial in their estimations.’
“What expectations do you have from the works of NA temporary committee, if we take into consideration that PACE officials follow the process of the court procedures linked with March 1 developments?”
“The precautionary measure of many detainees has been changed. Many of them got softer punishments. Not only is it too early to draw complete and total conclusions, but we also lack sufficient facts. The thing is the volume of the cases at inquest and trial stage is too big. And it is only after the investigation of those cases that we can get a general idea, understand and make well-grounded conclusions.
All the members of NA temporary committee are consistent. In my view the judicial and legal bodies work by the same principle, which is, not to accuse anyone of political standpoints or activity. To avoid emotional assessments is one of our priorities. There can be no speculations. And it is only after the clarification of the whole picture of March 1-2 events that the temporary committee can have the right to give its political assessment to what happened.
The most important thing is that there is political will and the authorities are in the process of gradual settlement of the issues, because our country and our people need this.”
“Can the monitoring committee assess the process of the implementation of the resolution not substantially but in the context of political approaches, because they intentionally overlook the fact that opposition doesn’t perform the proposals addressed to them?”
“I don’t think the announcements heard from the tribune of the Council of European will contradict their own principles. Though there are cases of applying double standards. I hope there will be no situational or political solutions on September 11.”
GEVORG HARUTYUNYAN

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