STRASBOURG, France””Armenia’s Deputy Parliament Speaker Arpine Hovhannisyan was elected a vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe on Monday during the opening session of the legislative body.
Hovhannisyan is leading Armenia’s delegation to Strasbourg for the PACE Summer session.
Hovannisyan joins Valeriu Ghiletchi of Moldova as second new vice-president elected Monday. They join 18 others to form the 20-member vice-presidential roster of PACE.
Since last Fall, PACE has been plagued with a crisis in its leadership as its president, Pedro Agramunt, a pro-Azerbaijani member of the assembly is under investigation for corruption. PACE is also embroiled in another scandal that involves vote-buying by Azerbaijan, a practice that has become known as Baku’s “Caviar Diplomacy.”
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