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On January 25, in Strasbourg the CoE Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland received the Head of the RA NA Delegation taking part in PACE Session works, PACE and NA Vice President Hermine Naghdalyan. In the course of the meeting issues of mutual interest, including the concerns on PACE works were discussed. The sides touched upon the developments taking place in Europe: the retreat of the accepted system of values, the spreading of corruption, the violation of recognized values and the necessity of the structure’s reforms. Last time, 7-8 years ago reforms were made in PACE and during these years serious changes were made. It has been noted that today one of the prior problems is to take measures for assessing the corruption phenomena shocking PACE, raising the reasons bearing them and working out mechanisms overcoming them.

The Head of the NA Delegation highlighted the viewpoint that in PACE Armenia and the issues concerning Armenia will be adequately perceived and the requirements and importance of democracy will be admissible in Armenia. The sides touched upon the statements and events of the last period, on which the NA Vice President Thorbjørn Jagland provided certain information. At the meeting the issues of the inhuman crimes of the Azerbaijani side in the April four-day war, the necessity of the Azerbaijanis’ vandalism investigation and assessment towards civil population and soldiers were also discussed, on which Hermine Naghdalyan and representatives of Armenia the Monitoring Co-rapporteurs for Armenia Alan Meale and Giuseppe Galati conveyed full and complete information during different meetings to European officials, the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks and the Secretary General.

Hermine Naghdalyan noted that during these days the RA Human Rights Defender had meetings in Strasbourg and submitted full and complete materials, facts and documents, also information about the Azerbaijani subversion occurred near the village of Chinari of Tavush Marz at the end of December, to which objective assessment should be given.

“We highlight the viewpoint of the CoE Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland that in terms of protection of human rights and freedoms “black points,” close territories should not be in Europe, and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights should be in force in the whole territory of Europe. We share this viewpoint and we consider that the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights should be in Artsakh, who assumed those standards, and should more actively present his positions. The NK conflict is the only zone, where the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights and his representatives have not been, meanwhile it is an important issue both in getting picture on real situation in the NKR and seeing the NKR involved in the territory of the Convention action, moreover that the Nagorno Karabakh joined the the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights in one-sided order,” Hermine Naghdalyan noted at the meeting.