The Armenian authorities intend to drag out the arrival of PACE co-rapporteurs on Armenia John Prescott and Georges Colombier in Yerevan by the end of this year, Zaruhi Postanjyan told a press conference with the head of the parliamentary group of the "Heritage" party Stepan Safaryan in Yerevan. According to her, RA authorities did not want her to participate in the discussions of the report of John Prescott and Georges Colombier in the PACE Monitoring Committee on the events of March 1, 2008, to avoid problems. Thanks to the noise, she spread, the calculations of authorities failed. According Postanjyan, her presence in the discussions was desirable also for PACE co-rapporteurs, since she has repeatedly complained of their activities.

According to Stepan Safaryan, in January of last year Armenian parliament's speaker was instructed to do everything to prevent members of the Heritage Party from working in international structures. According to him, this "order" came from the RA President's Office. Safaryan noted that the National Assembly Speaker did not want to become a target of criticism of the Heritage Party, and therefore delegated all the obligations to the head of the Armenian delegation to PACE David Harutyunyan.
Founded in 2002, Heritage, a National Liberal Party, is national by its roots, liberal in its economic principle, and an advocate of the democratic system of governance and due process for its citizens. The party’s objective is the development of Armenia as a democratic, lawful, and rights-based country that anchors its domestic and foreign policies in the nation’s sovereign interest. During the party’s Third Congress on May 30, 2005, Raffi K. Hovannisian was elected chairman. The other eight members of the party board were elected by secret vote.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic composition of democratically elected members of parliament established on the basis of an intergovernmental treaty. The Assembly is one of the two statutory organs of the Council of Europe, which is composed of the Committee of Ministers (the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, meeting usually at the level of their deputies) and the Assembly representing the political forces (majority and opposition) in its member states.

PACE has a total of 642 members – 321 principal members and 321 substitutes - who are representatives of each member state. There are also 18 delegates from the Canadian, Israeli and Mexican observers. The size of each country determines its number of representatives and number of votes. This is in contrast in the committee of ministers, where each country has one vote.

Each State member selects its method of designating its representatives to the parliamentary assembly; however, they must be chosen from among the members of the respective Parliaments. Moreover, the political composition of each national delegation must reflect the representation of the different parties within the respective parliaments.