15/03/2012 Monitoring
John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC) and Axel Fischer (Germany, EPP/CD), PACE’s co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, have repeated their call for “a credible public inquiry” into the ten deaths that took place during the post-electoral events of March 2008.
In an information note made public today, they said only a criminal investigation had so far taken place, “not the same as the inquiry we had in mind” which would have enabled the victims’ families to speak and the authorities to explain the investigation so far. President Sargsyan was “open” to their suggestions, they said, and has requested work on a concept for a public hearing.
The co-rapporteurs also said the forthcoming parliamentary elections in May 2012 were “crucial for the consolidation of democracy in Armenia” and called on the contestants not to undermine unecessarily public trust in the electoral process.