Today, in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) is scheduled to debate the recommendation of its Monitoring Committee to suspend the voting rights of Armenia due to the government's failure to release scores of jailed individuals considered to be political prisoners. Yesterday the Committee againn debated the matter and decided to urge the assembly not to sanction Yerevan for the time being, a move which has all but predetermined the outcome of the debate. Armenian Liberty news reports that David Harutiunian, head of the Armenian parliamentary delegation in Strasbourg, told reporters after the meeting that the panel will continue to closely monitor political developments in Armenia. Another member of the Armenian PACE delegation, Armen Rustamyan, noted that officials feel that the Armenian government now possesses the political will to fully comply with the two PACE resolutions demanding the immediate release of opposition activists arrested before and after the February 2008 presidential election. Earlier in the day, Lluis Maria de Puig, the PACE President, had stated that the Armenian authorities had assured the Monitoring Committee's representatives in Yerevan recently that they would amend two key articles of the Armenian Criminal Code used against prominent opposition detainees. The articles in question deal with inciting "public disturbances" and attempts to "usurp state power by force".