ADOPTED PACE REPORT ON MONITORING IN ARMENIA FAVORABLY DIFFERS FROM ONE ON AZERBAIJAN

PanARMENIAN.Net - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted yesterday the report on the monitoring held in Armenia and Azerbaijan in regards to the meeting of commitments to CE. As head of the Armenian delegation in PACE, vice speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torosian told Arminfo agency, the Armenian party pressed to exclude the word "other" from the wording "the problem of Nagorno Karabakh and other occupied territories of Azerbaijan", inserted into the report on Armenia. To note, such a wording could create the erroneous conception that Nagorno Karabakh belongs to the number of the territories occupied. Meanwhile, the wording did not undergo any changes in the analogous report on Azerbaijan. Tigran Torosian noted that the report on Armenia adopted by PACE is favorably different from the one on Azerbaijan. In his words, the report on Armenia points out the progress in view of Armenia's meeting the commitments to CE. While in the report on Azerbaijan CE accentuates the problems of political prisoners and violations of human rights available in the country, as well as the low rates of fulfilling the obligations. Moreover, in T. Torosian's words, the report on Azerbaijan ends with the warning of depriving the Azeri delegation of the PACE mandates in case there is no progress observed in the country in the aspect of fulfilling the commitments.