YEREVAN. – Zaruhi Postanjyan is convinced that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will reject the new makeup of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) delegation to this organization.   

Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party NA Faction leader Zaruhi Postanjyan—who is also a member of the current NA delegation to the PACE—stated the abovementioned during a press conference on Thursday.

In her words, the decision to remove her from the delegation is still an initiative, it will have to be submitted to the PACE January session, and therefore the new delegation still needs to be approved.

“The PACE will reject [it] because there has been a breach of regulations. A rotation was made here wherein the opposition was replaced by the authorities; this is a blatant violation,” Postanjyan said.           

As per the opposition MP, this decision by NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan is a decision to curtail the freedom of speech. 

“This initiative by Hovik Abrahamyan will not be successful at the PACE, and it will cause additional problems before our delegation and the authorities,” Zaruhi Postanjyan added.   

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