YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, ARMENPRESS: Natalia Vutova, a special envoy of the Council of Europe Secretary General in Yerevan, told a news conference today that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Honoring of Obligations and Commitments by Armenia, welcomed the undeniable efforts by Armenian authorities and their real political will to making progress towards honoring obligations and commitments which Armenia entered into by abolishing the death penalty, adopting a new Criminal Code, a law on the Ombudsman, creating an alternative military and civilian service, a law on the mass media and a law on freedom of information and revising the law on radio and television broadcasting.
Ms. Vutova said that the Monitoring Committee also expects further substantial progress as regards the functioning of the judicial system and the independence of the judiciary, the revision of the Administrative Code, the revision of the Electoral Code, media pluralism, increased local self-government, the fight against corruption, and the respect of religious freedom.
She said the Parliamentary Assembly also calls on the Armenian authorities to speed up the agenda for the revision of the Constitution and to take immediate measures to implement some other commitments, in particular by appointing the ombudsman in full compliance with the Assembly recommendations, and by releasing conscientious objectors imprisoned without delay.
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