Armenian delegation member: Anti-Armenian reports drafted in violation of PACE regulations
The two anti-Armenian resolutions introduced in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) are unprecedented by their wordings, Armenian MP of the opposition ‘Prosperous Armenia’ faction Vahan Babayan who is a member of the Armenian delegation to PACE said at a press conference today.
On January 26 PACE is due to hold votes on two draft resolutions: ‘Escalation of violence in Nagorno Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan’ by British MP Robert Walter - a controversial report that drew a wide response, as well as the report on the Sarsang reservoir prepared by Milica Markovic from Herzegovina.
“Both reports contain terms that contradict Armenia’s and Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s approaches to a settlement of the Karabakh problem and distort the international community’s position on the issue,” Babayan said, adding that those anti-Armenian reports are also inadequate in a political and legal sense.
He noted that the reports were drafted in violation of the PACE regulations as their authors did not visit the territories of some of the sides indicated in the documents.
“Do you know that the wife of one of the rapporteurs, namely Robert Walter, is an Azerbaijani citizen? She has quite serious connections in that country, while Walter himself received Turkish citizenship. He did not make a visit to the region and he wrote that Azerbaijani were deported from Nagorno Karabakh, but it was not mentioned how many Armenians were displaced from Nagorno Karabakh and the adjacent territories. The matter concerns 480,000 Armenians,” the MP stressed.
When asked what the Armenian delegation to PACE is going to do and what the delegation members expect from the winter session of the PACE, Babayan said he would not like to open the brackets.
“Rest assured that both the delegation and Armenia’s National Assembly as well as many officials dealing with foreign policy have made every effort so that we could achieve success. Yet not everything depends on us,” V. Babayan said.
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