{"id":98734,"date":"2011-05-25T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=98734"},"modified":"2011-05-25T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:14:00","slug":"eldr-resolution-proposes-eu-visa-bans-for-certain-armenia-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/25\/eldr-resolution-proposes-eu-visa-bans-for-certain-armenia-officials.html","title":{"rendered":"ELDR Resolution Proposes EU Visa Bans for Certain Armenia Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20, the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Council, convening in Dresden, Germany, adopted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldr.eu\/media\/cms\/Dresden_Adopted_Resolutions-2.pdf\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">resolution<\/span><\/strong><\/a> which refers to developments in Armenia&#8217;s domestic politics, the elimination of the consequences of Mar. 1, 2008, and possible means of punishment. The resolution was presented by the Pan-Armenian National Movement (HHSh). This news was conveyed by HHSh party leader Aram Manukyan at a press conference in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution includes the following points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Reaffirming ELDR Congress resolution on political prisoners in Armenia in its entirety;<\/li>\n<li>Underlining the impact of the ELDR resolution on releasing 8 political prisoners;<\/li>\n<li>Stressing the continuous custody of 6 remaining political prisoners;<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledging the aspiration of Armenian people to live in a society based on European values;<\/li>\n<li>Demands the Armenian authorities to release immediately and unconditionally all political prisoners;<\/li>\n<li>Calls upon ALDE to raise the prospects for EU visa-bans for Armenian officials involved in politically-motivated abuse of the justice system;<\/li>\n<li>Calls on ALDE to insist this issue be treated as priority in EU-Armenia dialogue;<\/li>\n<li>Calls on ELDR member parties to raise this issue as a priority in the framework of parliamentary cooperation of their national parliaments with the Parliament of Armenia;<\/li>\n<li>Asks ELDR secretariat to report back on this issue on the next ELDR Congress.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Manukyan also informed the press that more than 100 delegates from 57 European liberal parties approved the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The next ELDR Congress might take place in Yerevan, Manukyan added.<\/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>On May 20, the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Council, convening in Dresden, Germany, adopted a resolution&#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":93922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17374,11545,14488,17294,11516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98734"}],"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=98734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}