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The failure of the anti-Armenian report, which was prepared by British MP Robert Walter and voted on at the winter session of PACE today, shows that despite the large-scale lobbying work, the majority have an idea that the OSCE Minsk Group is the only format for continuing efforts on a resolution to the Karabakh conflict, Armenian MP of the opposition faction “Orinats Yerkir” Mher Shahgeldyan told Panorama.am.

“Robert Walter’s report rejected by PACE was the most problematic. This is important to us. The second report could have been considered in a humanitarian sense, but its political approaches were unacceptable to us. When comparing the two reports, we can see that the anti-Armenian chains placed by the Azerbaijani lobby or Azerbaijanis themselves have been broken,” Shahgeldyan said.    

PACE earlier today voted on the two reports.  “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water” – a scandalous report prepared by Milica Markovic, MP from Bosnia and Herzegovina - was adopted by 98 votes to 71, with 40 abstentions. Another controversial report that drew a wide response - “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan” prepared by British MP Robert Walter who holds Turkish citizenship, was rejected in a 66-77 vote.