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25.01.2017
Report by Member of RA NA Delegation Naira Zohrabyan to PACE at PACE Sitting
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“Dear colleagues, frankly, when I got acquainted with Volodymyr Ariev’s report, who raised the very topical theme regarding the attacks against freedom of the journalists and mass media in Europe, I hoped that we are going to deal with unbiased assessments. As a former journalist, the violation against journalists is really very important for me, on which we should voice in our organisation. I hoped that Mr Ariev in his speech would refer to, for example, the closed Dozhd TV Company on political reasons in Ukraine, as well as the facts submitted by Mass Information Institute, according to which, only during eight months of last year in Ukraine 224 cases of impeding the journalists’ professional activities were registered that the authorities and certain persons sponsoring the power threaten the journalists, and that in Ukraine the law enforcement bodies watch out to sue criminal cases on those concrete cases. I sincerely expected that Ariev, “being a serious connoisseur of frozen conflicts” will not leave out the murder of the Ukrainian well-known journalist Pavel Sheremt in the centre of Kiev in July of last year, which, as the political scientist Alexey Garan assures has direct connection with the Ukrainian corrupted officials, to whom Sheremet was a deadly danger.

Instead of referring to this and such serious problems, Mr Ariev reserved himself the right to poke his nose into the problem of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, making inadmissible wordings and conclusions. To my impression, the author of the report used the theme of the freedom of press in Europe as a pretext for qualifying Nagorno Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and the power of Artsakh separatists. Mr Ariev, obviously, you can’t sit still without sharing the laurels of the MPs of Luca Volonte, Robert Walter, Milica Marković and a number of other PACE MPs and you madly hurry to occupy their place. I will not advise you, because good days are not expected for them and Azerbiajan’s other lobbyists.

By the way, regarding the freedom of speech, in my opinion, at least, you have no right to speak about freedom of speech, you that on December 22 in the Rada of Ukraine with your speech did everything in order Rada will vote for the dismissal of our colleague Nadezhda Savchenko from PACE. You and your colleagues quited Batkivshina party and the Committee on National Security and Defense of Rada. In fact, you did it unanimously without any vote against. Really, what freedom of speech and thought! And what for? At least, for the fact that in Minsk Savchenko have met with the leaders of Luhansk and Donetsk to discuss the issues of the exchange of political prisoners.

So, you have no right to speak either about freedom of speech or human rights, moreover, about the issue of Nagorno Karabakh, the solution of which, fortunately, is not the competence of yours and persons like you.”


25.01.2017
RA NA and PACE Vice President Hermine Naghdalyan Takes the Chair at PACE Plenary Session
The RA NA Vice President, PACE Vice President, Head of the RA NA Delegation to Armenia Hermine Naghdalyan took the chair at today’s plenary sitting of PACE Winter Session, which began in Strasbourg. By the way, it was already the second time that PACE Vice President Hermine Naghd...

25.01.2017
Awarding Ceremony in National Assembly
On January 25, the RA NA Speaker Galust Sahakyan awarded the RA People’s Artist Gegham Grigoryan the RA National Assembly Medal of Honour for the great contribution and long-year activities in the sphere of culture.The award was handed over to Gegham Grigoryan’s widow, Valeria Grigoryan.The RA NA Sp...

25.01.2017
Speech by Member of RANA Delegation Samvel Farmanyan at PACE Session
In PACE during the debate of the report Attacks against Journalists and Media Freedom in Europe the member of the RA Delegation Samvel Farmanyan delivered a speech.“It is quite clear: media freedom is core for any democracy. If freedom of the media is assured, then democracy has a chance. If journal...

25.01.2017
Speech by Member of RA NA Delegation to PACE Naira Karapetyan at PACE Session
“It is a kind of tradition to thank the rapporteur for the good job done, but unfortunately it’s impossible to follow this tradition in this case. A very sensitive and important topic has become an issue to manipulate very strong political issues and play not only with high politics but also with hu...



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