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The statement of head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov has no connection to reality, head of the Armenian delegation to PACE David Harutyunyan told Panorama.am. 

Samad Seyidov recently told the Azerbaijani media that a meeting between the delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place within the PACE Subcommittee on Karabakh during the PACE spring session.

This statement was strange because the mentioned Subcommittee does not exist for a long time. So we asked David Harutyunyan for a comment. He said: “First of all, there haven’t been any meetings or consultations held within any Ad Hoc Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly, let alone the non-existing one. To express myself in a diplomatic way, I have to state that Mr. Seyidov’s statements have no connection to reality at all.

The truth is that several confidential meetings have been organized under the auspices of the President of the Parliamentary with the heads of Armenian and Azeri delegations to discuss ways of cooperation and reconciliation between the delegations.

The political will to start a genuine dialogue aimed at the fostering reconciliation between the delegations was highlighted during these meetings and one of the most important agreements was the commitment of parties to maintain confidentiality of the negotiations.

Unfortunately this simple commitment not only was disrespected by our Azeri colleague, but the truth was distorted and used for the purpose of propaganda.”