{"id":47146,"date":"2010-10-12T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/10\/12\/lindblad-not-to-participate-in-upcoming-coe-forum-for-future-of-democracy\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T06:25:00","slug":"lindblad-not-to-participate-in-upcoming-coe-forum-for-future-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/10\/12\/lindblad-not-to-participate-in-upcoming-coe-forum-for-future-of-democracy.html","title":{"rendered":"Lindblad Not to Participate in Upcoming CoE Forum for Future of Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Formally the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs are authorized to go to Armenia; however, no one wants to meet with us, said head of the Swedish delegation to PACE and one of the co-rapporteurs, G<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u00f6<\/span>ran Lindblad, responding to a request for comments by Epress.am today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">He added that the other co-rapporteur, John Prescott, also isn&#8217;t willing to come to Armenia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">A &#8220;very strange situation&#8221; has developed, continued Lindblad. &#8220;The Armenian government only waits for my mandate to be over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;No there is no point going to the [Council of Europe] Forum [for the Future of Democracy]; had the mission taken place I would have. Now it would look like giving up if I came. I voted against holding a Democracy Forum in Yerevan until conditions are better,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formally the PACE&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[17100,17102,17101,12354,12086,12089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}