YEREVAN. Nov 5 (Interfax) - The Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) issued recommendations for the organization's member states to tackle the destabilization of the socio-political situation from outside at a meeting on Tuesday.
The draft document contains suggestions to harmonize the legislation to fight the technology of color revolutions.
In accordance with the explanatory note to recommendations, the current situation is characterized by "attempts to replace the functions of national bodies of power and control over supranational international bodies, inciting interethnic and interreligious conflicts, and creating a destructive informational influence on the mass consciousness."
"Amid expanding political and economic integration, internal instability in one country can significantly influence the situation in the CSTO on the whole," the explanatory note said.
"External forces not only fund the creators of instability within a country but also employ the instruments of 'soft power' both inside the state and on the international arena," it said.
The influence is conveyed through various parties, non-governmental organizations, and trade unions and "is ever more frequently linked to the holding of protest rallies (including with the use of violence)," the note said.
The Armenian parliament said that these recommendations could not be applied to national laws. The Armenian side spelled out its stance in a letter which it sent to the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.
"Following the thorough study and discussion on the draft of recommendations in the relevant committees of the National Assembly and agencies we came to conclusion that these recommendations cannot be applied and implemented in the Armenian legislation," the letter of the chief of the parliament's staff said.