AZERBAIJANI DELEGATION TO PACE TRIES TO ACCUSE KARABAKH AUTHORITIES OF INTENTIONAL BURNING TERRITORIES AROUND NAGORNY KARABAKH

Yerevan, June 26. ArmInfo. In the course of PACE Summer Session opened
in Strasbourg, Monday, Azerbaijani delegation to PACE tried to accuse
Karabakh authorities of intentional burning the territories around
Nagorny Karabakh Republic. The Armenian delegation is headed by Tigran
Torosyan, Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly.

The parliamentary press-service of Armenia reports that after the
session of PACE Bureau, the agenda was changed: the discussion on the
powers of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE was replaced from 29 to 26
June. Referendum for independence of Montenegro and its consequences
as well as the Constitutional amendments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
were added to the agenda as urgent topics. As regards the discussion
of Azerbaijani delegation’s powers at PACE, the organization approved
only 2 of 10 changes proposed by Azerbaijani parliamentarians.

In the course of the meeting of political groups, as it was expected,
the Azerbainani delegation tried to speculate on the problem of fires
in the territories nearing NKR presenting them as intentional acts
by Karabakh authorities. The members of the Armenian delegation, in
their turn, presented the real picture and called the statements
by Azerbaijani party provocation and an attempt to "balance"
the desecration of Armenian historical monuments and to create an
impression that there is no legal order in the territories under
control of NKR Defense Army. As political groups make no decisions at
their meetings, the discussion of the issue had no consequences. The
Azerbaijani delegation may raise the issue of fire on the last day
of the Summer Session. At the same time, it continues collecting
signatures in favor of a project on this problem that may become a
topic for report in future. This issue was not included in the agenda
of PACE, the source reports.