Instability ahead

The International Crisis Group has a report on the future stability of Armenia.

The report carries a series of recommendations:

To the government it says "Conduct a credible and public investigation into the behaviour of law enforcement agencies during the April 2004 demonstrations, reform laws and law enforcement agencies so as to end administrative detention and severe physical ill-treatment in pre-trial detention, and improve the judiciary by training and appointing new and additional judges, and by increasing the Justice Ministry budget so it can provide better working conditions for judges." This will be bitter medicine for the Kocharyan government.

And to the opposition it says:
"Counter the perception that the opposition is only interested in regime change by developing issue-based platforms on key political and economic topics, including anti-corruption strategy and youth and rural-oriented programs."

There is also advice for the Council of Europe, US government and European Union.
There is also stark advice (unlikely to be headed) to "Agree with Armenia on the technical modalities involved and open the border."

It's interesting that the majority of recommendations (six in all) go to the Armenian government.
Also available in A4 PDF format.

Posted by Matt on October 19, 2004 | TrackBack | Email to a friend