PACE Interim Subcommittee on Karabakh to Visit Region in October
Leader of the Armenian delegation to the PACE, Speaker Tigran Torosyan and Azeri delegation head Samed Seidov met with Rapporteur of the PACE Interim Subcommittee on Karabakh Russell Johnston. They discussed the Subcommittee coming visit to Armenia, NK and Azerbaijan in compliance with the 1416 Resolution of the OSCE MG for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The PACE Bureau has approved the composition of the commission proposed by Armenian Speaker, Armenian delegation leader Tigran Torosyan at the Spring Session. It now includes heads of the Armenian and Azeri delegations, one opposition MP of each country, reporters on monitoring in the two states, Lord Russell Johnston, PACE Rapporteur on the missing in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan Leo Platvoet.
Taking into attention the circumstance that in the second half of October a meeting of the PACE Monitoring Commission will be held in Yerevan, while in the second half of November the sitting of the Political Commission will take place in Baku, a preliminary agreement is reached that the Subcommittee will arrive in the region in the last week of October. The visit will be familiarization and meetings in Armenia, NK and Azerbaijan are planned, reports the Armenian NA Press Service.
Taking into attention the circumstance that in the second half of October a meeting of the PACE Monitoring Commission will be held in Yerevan, while in the second half of November the sitting of the Political Commission will take place in Baku, a preliminary agreement is reached that the Subcommittee will arrive in the region in the last week of October. The visit will be familiarization and meetings in Armenia, NK and Azerbaijan are planned, reports the Armenian NA Press Service.
