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“Some reports discussed at Euronest session included proposals by Azerbaijani, Georgian and a number of European parliamentarians that ran counter to our interests. At the meeting of the EPP faction held before the Euronest session, an agreement was reached between the sides on withdrawing their proposals that ran counter to Armenia’s interests,” head of the Armenian delegation to Euronest Artak Zakaryan told reporters in Yerevan when presenting the details of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly session held in Brussels on May 27-29. 

According to him, at the last moment, Azerbaijani delegates placed on the agenda a draft resolution on the limitation of Armenia’s water resources, which was unexpected to the Armenian delegation. Artak Zakaryan added that the resolution included terms like “occupant” and “occupation.”

“We spoke against the discussion of that issue because Azerbaijan uses Euronest PA as a platform of anti-Armenian propaganda. We managed to withdraw it from the agenda,” said the parliamentarian.

An agreement was reached to hold the next plenary session of Euronest in Armenia next autumn.

“Azerbaijan tries to represent any discussion in committees and any resolution on Karabakh conflict in a distorted way,” said chairperson of the Euronest Committee on Political Affairs Naira Zohrabyan, adding that for the present, Euronest opposes Azerbaijan’s attempts to misrepresent the reality.

“To the credit of our delegation and a number of members of the European Parliament, we achieved positive results,” Ms Zohrabyan concluded.