PACE Сo-rapporteurs on Armenia issued a statement calling on Armenian authorities to carry out reforms. Unless it is done the situation "could potentially lead to renewed social unrest", they say.
There are no initiatives for electoral reform and reform of the judiciary and the police, the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the honoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia (John Prescott, United Kingdom, SOC, and Axel Fischer, Germany, EPP/CD). The rapporteurs emphasise in an information note that legislative changes alone are not sufficient and "should be accompanied by policies aimed at changing existing practice and mentalities".
According to the note, the ongoing detention of certain persons for their role in the events of March 2008 and the lack of a proper inquiry into the causes of the 10 fatalities which occurred at that time "continue to poison the political environment in Armenia" and could well have "a negative impact on next year’s elections".
It is pointed out in the note that the current status quo with regard to reforms, combined with political polarization and the deteriorating social and economic environment, "could potentially lead to renewed social unrest if unaddressed and not followed by genuinely democratic elections".
There are no initiatives for electoral reform and reform of the judiciary and the police, the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the honoring of obligations and commitments by Armenia (John Prescott, United Kingdom, SOC, and Axel Fischer, Germany, EPP/CD). The rapporteurs emphasise in an information note that legislative changes alone are not sufficient and "should be accompanied by policies aimed at changing existing practice and mentalities".
According to the note, the ongoing detention of certain persons for their role in the events of March 2008 and the lack of a proper inquiry into the causes of the 10 fatalities which occurred at that time "continue to poison the political environment in Armenia" and could well have "a negative impact on next year’s elections".
It is pointed out in the note that the current status quo with regard to reforms, combined with political polarization and the deteriorating social and economic environment, "could potentially lead to renewed social unrest if unaddressed and not followed by genuinely democratic elections".
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