Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Um, wanna talk a little bit about the, the PACE report that came out that sort of surprised me actually by putting, uh, a, a tiny little bit of criticism about the June 7 election.

Because while the Parliamentary Assembly's report concluded that Armenia's parliamentary elections in, on June seventh offered voters a genuine choice and were well-run, it said.

They surprisingly criticized the CEC, the Central Election Commission, for annulling the results at three polling stations and not scheduling a revote.

And, uh, they claim that the excluded results could have affected the election outcome.

So, but, but still, you know, that is what they signed up for.

That is what they promised, uh, the voters.

More was said in the Parliamentary Assembly of, uh, the Council of Europe than was said in the Armenian Parliament.

Uh, because on Monday, a British MP, Edward Lee, warned that the Armenian Apostolic Church is facing what he described as an unprecedented threat from Armenia's own authorities.

She billed us $34,000 for three glitzy trips to Strasbourg, France, over just five months in 2025.

Now, she says that she was there to attend sessions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

But here's the kicker, Mike.

Canadian senators can observe.

The same year, Karamurza won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary written and published in the Washington Post from his prison cell.

He now sits on the newly formed Platform for Dialogue with Russian Democratic Forces, run by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Human settlements across the vast Eurasian plain that would become Russia stretches back to the Paleolithic era, but it was the medieval principality of Moscovy emerging from the wreckage of Mongol domination in the 14th and 15th centuries that laid the foundation for a centralized Russian state.

Successive czars expanded the state across 11 time zones, building an empire whose autocratic instincts survived revolution in 1917 and reasserted themselves under Soviet rule.

United Nation Mission in Kosovo, which was, uh, this administration, transitional administration mission, uh, between nineteen-ninety-nine and two-thousand-eight when Kosovo declared independence, also pursued, uh, investigation and prosecution, uh, of these offenses, and also the European Union Rule of Law Mission, which was a transitory, uh, mission led by European Union in the period after the declaration, after Kosovo declared independence, after two-thousand-eight.

And the most recent addition is the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, and the source for this, uh, goes back to two-thousand-eleven, uh, a report on inhuman and degrading treatment and the traffic of human organs, illicit traffic of human organs, which is a report presented by Dick Marty, who was a member of Par- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and was endorsed by the sa- same council in two-thousand-eleven.

Uh, and the report made, uh, serious allegations about involvement of Kosovo Liberation Army members in, uh, crimes against humanity, including the removal of organs, which was a very transactional accusation.

To address this, European Union had the powers to, uh, establish an investigation task force, and it did so in two-thousand-twelve, which conducted an investigation of this allegation.