Today, RA Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan received the Co-Rapporteurs on Armenia of the PACE Monitoring Committee Giuseppe Galati and Yulia Lovochkina. The RA permanent representative to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan also attended the meeting.
The Defender presented the activities of the Office during the events occurred in Armenia during April and May. In particular, a reference was made to the Defender’s activities with regard to the rights protection of participants of peaceful demonstrations, discussion of complaints against the activities of the Police, etc. The PACE Co-Rapporteurs highly valued the Defender's activities during those days and noted that they had taken them into consideration in their statements as well.
Arman Tatoyan expressed his thankfulness for valuing the activities of the Human Rights Defender and expressed his readiness to continue the active cooperation in strengthening of human rights and democratic institutions.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the priorities in the field of human rights protection and opportunities for further cooperation.