Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg
YEREVAN (RFE/RL)—Representatives of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) met with Armenian civic activists in Yerevan on Wednesday to assess the Armenian authorities’ stated commitment to electoral and other reforms.
The British lawmaker Alan Meale and his Italian colleague Giuseppe Galati are the Armenia co-reporters of a PACE committee monitoring member states’ compliance with their obligations to the Strasbourg-based organization. They will submit a report to PACE later this year.
Meale and Galati are scheduled to meet with President Serzh Sarkisian, other senior Armenian officials, opposition leaders and civil society representatives during the two-day trip. A PACE statement released on Tuesday said they will focus on “the follow-up to constitutional changes, electoral reform and the fight against corruptionâ€
