CE RECEIVED RATIFICATION INSTRUMENTS ON ARMENIA JOINING SEVERAL EUROPEAN DOCUMENTS

March 23 Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Ambassador Christian Ter-Stepanian handed Council of Europe (CE) Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio instruments of ratification of 6 European documents by Armenia. These are the Convention on Suppression of Terrorism, Additional Protocol to the Convention on Suppression of Terrorism, Additional Protocol to the Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, Convention on Spectator Violence and Misbehavior at Sports Events and in Particular Football Matches, Anti-Doping Convention and Landscape Convention. As reported by the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the Convention on Suppression of Terrorism specifically aims at simplification of the procedure of delivering executors of acts of terrorism. For that the Convention enumerates the offences, which the member countries pledge not to consider as those imposed by political motives. Hijacking of airplanes, kidnapping people, taking hostages, using explosive matters and assemblies, sending trap-packages or letters posing danger to people’s lives are among these.