The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) got underway Monday in Strasbourg, France, and the approval of the national delegations to the PACE was discussed as a priority issue.  

Member of Armenian National Assembly (NA) delegation to PACE, non-pro-government Prosperous Armenia Party NA Faction Secretary Naira Zohrabyan told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Even though information was disseminated in the media that, at the start of the session and at the initiative of opposition Heritage Party NA Faction Head Zaruhi Postanjyan—who is former member of the Armenian delegation to the PACE—, ten PACE MPs were to challenge the legitimacy of the current Armenian delegation, Zohrabyan informed that no PACE deputy questioned the mandate of the delegation.     

Zohrabyan added that although Postanjyan—who is in the US, at present—was invited to the session, she did not travel to Strasbourg.

The European Peoples’ Party (EPP), which is the largest faction at the PACE and which Postanjyan is a member of, had invited her to Strasbourg but had not covered the respective expenses. The media had informed that Postanjyan had petitioned to NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan to find money in order for her to head from the US to France, but Abrahamyan had turned down this petition.