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ARMENIA: ARMENIA CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE DELAY TO COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEMBERSHIP.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, September, 2000

Meeting in Yerevan on 13 September with a visiting European Parliament delegation, President Kocharian and Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Martirosian both expressed concern that Armenia's full membership in the Council of Europe may be made conditional on developments in neighboring Azerbaijan, Noyan Tapan and RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported.

Delegation head Ursula Schleicher had repeated the European view that Armenia and Azerbaijan should be granted full membership simultaneously. Azerbaijan's chances of such membership depend, however, on an end to harassment of journalists and whether the parliamentary elections scheduled for 5 November are free, fair, and democratic. Parliamentary speaker Armen Khachatrian assured the delegation that Armenia will meet all...

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