How Greek parliamentarian in PACE angered Armenians – Greek media
Mignatiou.com Greek news website has published an article about the activities of Greek parliamentarian in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), ex-Foreign Minister of Greece Dora Bakoyannis. The article is titled “How Dora Angered Armenians.”
The article notes that Dora Bakoyannis delivered a blow to Armenian-Greek relations by supporting the Azerbaijani motion on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the PACE.
It became known that there has been a political clash in the PACE between Dora Bakoyannis and veteran lawmaker Andreas Gross (Switzerland) when the latter raised a question about Bakoyannis’ honesty and ethics and said that she is on close terms with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and has held a dinner in his honor.
Bakoyannis justified herself by saying that she invited Aliyev to dinner as chairwoman of the Greek Olympic Committee.
Mignatiou website says, citing an article posted on Panorama.am: “The relationship of Dora Bakoyannis and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has oligarchic interests, and the Armenian website Panorama.am claims that one of the reasons why Bakoyannis initiated the resolution on Nagorno-Karabakh is that she wants to get Aliyev’s support for becoming European Commissioner for Energy.”
The article says that the issue of Dora Bakoyannis was even discussed at the highest level, during the visit of Greek President Karolos Papoulias to Yerevan. In response to the Armenian side’s concerns over Bakoyannis, President Papoulias said Greece has a clear position on the Nagorno-Karabakh problem and the approach of Ms Bakoyannis does not reflect the position of the Greek government, according to the article.
As was reported earlier, during the summer session of the PACE, two draft resolutions on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were combined and the PACE Bureau decided to send the draft resolutions to the PACE Political Affairs Committee for preparation of a report titled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno- Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan.” At the autumn session the PACE approved the Bureau’s decision, with Robert Walter of the UK being appointed rapporteur.
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