ARMENIA SPEAKER ACCUSES AZERBAIJAN OF ABUSING POSITION AT PACE
Today, Azerbaijan
June 29 2006
Armenia’s parliamentary speaker accused Azerbaijan of using the
rostrum of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to
insult Armenia, the parliament’s press department said Thursday.
Tigran Torosyan told PACE Secretary General Terry Davis in Strasbourg
Wednesday: "The PACE session in Strasbourg is highly important
for joint discussion of issues linked with the fulfillment of the
countries’ obligations, while Azerbaijan is using the PACE rostrum
to insult and slander Armenia."
According to RIA Novosti, Torosyan said Azerbaijani delegates had
accused Armenia of starting forest fires in troubled Nagorno Karabakh,
a region in Azerbaijan with a largely ethnic Armenian population,
and occupied territories.
He said "Nagorno Karabakh" had asked the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe, the world’s largest regional security body,
two weeks ago to monitor the situation and prove the accusations false.
Torosyan also said that in this situation the Armenian delegation
could not abstain from reciprocal statements. He said false insults
and accusations were unworthy of the Council of Europe’s principles,
and proposed taking steps to resolve the situation.
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