YEREVAN. -- PACE co-rapporteurs’ statement has to be perceived as a signal and a warning, MP from Prosperous Armenia party Arman Abovyan said.

Abovyan commented for Armenian News-NEWS.am on the statement issued by co-rapporteurs Andrej Šircelj and Kimmo Kiljunen who expressed concern over tension between Armenian PM’s office and Constitutional Court.

“This is both a signal, why not, a warning and a statement, because the parties have interpreted the statement as it would be favorable to each of them,” he said. “And, if you look at the text on the whole, there is everything: criticism, facts, and so on. It was expected that there would be a reaction to the fuss over the Constitutional Court that has been going for months, and this is quite serious. It is not a good sign that we get an external reaction to this situation.”

The MP believes that Armenian authorities’ further actions have to be consistent with the law.

In a statement issued on Friday, the PACE co- rapporteurs said they are worried about the long-term damage these tensions, that have reached an unprecedented level, could inflict on the judiciary as a whole, in which trust is already very low.