PACE: Respect Constitutional Court Ruling

Itar-Tass also carries news that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has urged the opposition to accept the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court which endorsed the results of the 19 February presidential election in Armenia. PACE also urges both sides not to take any actions which might lead to further escalations and violence.

This is said in a communique of PACE’s Monitoring Committee that had a meeting in Paris Tuesday to discuss the situation in Armenia and proposals of the Council of Europe’s representative John Prescott on ways of untangling the current tensions.

One of the recommendations Prescott made is to lift the state of emergency in the Armenian capital Yerevan and restore human rights, as well as to release from detention all the activists of opposition parties who did not commit serious offenses.

[…]

The committee also believes it is necessary to hold consultations among all the political forces on the election law reform so as to rebuild people’s trust in the results of elections and on a reform of the political system, which would guarantee the opposition a role in making political decisions and governing the country.