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Göran Lindblad was elected Co-Rapporteur on Armenia at the session of PACE Monitoring Committee in 2010. The Armenian delegation was fairly discontent with his candidature. We will remind that former Swedish MP Lindblad brought a project on Armenia into circulation.

“It is the first time I hear that a person has the right to give negative assessments until the opposite is proved to him. Such example of political immaturity increases our apprehensions about the impartiality of Co- Rapporteur Lindblad,” head of the Armenian delegation to PACE, Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Issues David Harutyunyan said.

However, Lindblad did not limit himself to it and declared that the head of the Armenian delegation to PACE attempted to bribe him. More, in his interview to Epress.am he “confessed” proudly to two attempts to bribe him. The first was the Soviet consul in the 80s. The second case allegedly happened when he was the head of PACE Political Affairs Committee and did not permit to hold the Forum for the Future of Democracy in Yerevan. Lindblad asserts that D. Harutyunyan invited him to lunch and said that if the forum was held in Yerevan, the Swedish MP would be honored highly and would be given the floor.

If Göran Lindblad thinks that honoring foreign guests highly is an attempt to bribe them, then what shall we say about the photos Panorama.am possesses, featuring him among Azerbaijani lobbyists who hand over to him a book with an expressive title “Armenian Terror”? Obviously, Lindblad, to put it mildly, is insincere, because the facts are much more convincing than his unfounded accusations, especially as in early October of 2009 PACE President Luís Maria de Puig urged the Azerbaijani delegation to stop spreading xenophobic propaganda materials, while this photo obviously violates that requirement.