Panorama.am
14:40 10/07/06
AZERBAIJAN FAILED AT OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
The Armenian delegation is quite content with the results OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly (PA) summer session. "All pro-Armenian
resolutions are adopted and Armenia managed to oust anti-Armenian
resolutions proposed by Azerbaijan," NA Vice Speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan
who headed the Armenian delegation to OSCE PA told a press conference
today.
All anti-Armenia proposals were supported by Georgia, Azerbaijan and
Turkey, he said, concluding that "cooperation among these countries
is active."
According to V. Hovhannisyan only three countries among 56 OSCE
member states – Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey supported the proposal
to return territories under dispute to the countries to which they
belong and thus to settle the conflicts.
The Armenian delegation managed to include the principle of
self-determination in OSCE resolution documents. They based the
proposal on Montenegro independence referendum. "Despite of outrageous
protest from Azerbaijan and Georgia, the voting indicated that the
principle of national self-determination has a great acceptance among
OSCE member states," Hovhannisyan said./Panorama.am/