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The current atmosphere in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is not news to Armenia, MP of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Lernik Aleksanyan said at a press conference today.

“We already knew that – I would not use the word ‘anti-Armenian’ – that  pro-Azerbaijani sentiment formed in PACE,” the deputy said noting that there are a number of reasons for that, but “caviar diplomacy and bribes exert the greatest influence”.

Commenting on the two anti-Armenian reports that were debated in PACE recently and the adoption of one of those reports, L. Aleksanyan said: “The documents have no influence in a legal and political sense , but they can shape a particular opinion”.

As was reported, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on January 26 voted on 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.