Armenia: John Prescott Returns

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1. Onnik 03.05.08 / 5pm

   2008-03-05 14:26:00 John Prescott, Head PACE Ad hoc Committee Mission to observe presidential elections in Armenia to arrive in Armenia March 6

   ArmInfo. John Prescott, Head PACE Ad hoc Committee Mission to observe presidential elections in Armenia will pay a post-election fact-finding visit to Armenia March 6-7.

   Press Service of the Armenian National Assembly told ArmInfo that Presidenr Robert Kocharyan will receive Mr. Prescott on March 6. The same day, Mr. Prescott will meet with NA Speaker Tigran Torosyan and Head of NA delegation to PACE David Haroutunyan. Later PACE deputy will meet with Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, Levon Ter-Petrosyan and public organization representatives. John Prescott is expected to meet also with Constitutional Court Chairman Gagik Haroutunyan, CEC Chairman Garegin Azaryan and CE Ambassadors to Armenia. On March 7 John Prescott will have a meeting with the parliamentary factions of Orinats Yerkir, ARF Dashnaktsutyun and Heritage parties. The same day, John Prescott is expected to meet with Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, Chairman of National Commission for Television and Radio Grigor Amalyan and Chairman of the Council of Public Tele-Radio Company Aleksan Haroutunyan, as well as Head of the Armenian Police Hayk Haroutunyan.
2. Paul 03.06.08 / 8pm

   According to the comments of this blog, looks like a bunch of British hate him http://www.order-order.com/2008/03/prescott-peacemaking-fears.html
3. Onnik 03.06.08 / 9pm

   And your point is what? That only someone who is loved by 100 percent of their country’s population should be sent to Armenia? On that basis, there ain’t going to be nobody. I’d say show me a politician anywhere in the world who isn’t loathed by some percentage of their electorate, but as we know, that’s impossible.
4. Paul 03.06.08 / 10pm

   No, I have no point. Just randomly came across that blog and was surprised that it had over 40 ‘hater’ comments. I didn’t know anything about him or that he was so controversial. This was not a commentary on whether he should have been sent or not, just a random link. Since posting that I have heard that he has a short temper and maybe not the best person to send handling delicate negotiations, but I know nothing about him so I really don’t have an opinion either way- except that I rather doubt such a delegation will have any effect.
5. Marilisa 03.08.08 / 2am

   Now we can also ask to the Heritage if they like him or not…

   Yerevan—This evening Heritage Party leader and Armenia’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs Raffi K. Hovannisian received US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Matthew Bryza and Chargé d’Affaires Joseph Pennington. They discussed Armenia’s domestic developments and regional challenges. Earlier in the day, Bryza met at the US Embassy with Heritage parliamentarians Anahit Bakhshian and Stepan Safarian. The MPs presented their views on the avenues for easing the tension which has mounted in Armenia following the presidential elections held on February 19, 2008.

   The same day, Raffi Hovannisian held an official meeting at the National Assembly with Chairman John Prescott of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Ad Hoc Committee which observed the recent elections. Prescott is back in Yerevan on a post-election fact-finding mission together with Bas Klein, the deputy head of PACE’s Interparliamentary Cooperation and Election Observation Department, and Bojana Urumova, the Secretary General’s representative in Armenia. Hovannisian, who was joined by MPs Anahit Bakhshian and Vardan Khatchatrian, and Prescott exchanged analyses of the tragic events that unfolded during and after the presidential elections as well as of their cause-effect relationship.

   Earlier in the week, Raffi Hovannisian conducted separate in-depth meetings with the Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Heikki Talvitie and with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Ambassador Peter Semneby.

   http://www.heritage.am/pr/070308.htm

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