"Zerkalo": "Ovanesyan Wanted to be a Hero in Armenia"

Ïðaâî Âûaîða, Azerbaijan
Democratic Azerbaijan
July 12 2006

Milli Mejlis Deputy, Rabiyat Aslanova, cannot give another explanation
to the conduct of Armenian vice-speaker Recently summer session of
OSCE Parliament was finished in Brussels.

As members of Azerbaijan delegation say, session was successful
enough. Particularly, member of Azerbaijan delegation, head of
standing commission of Milli Mejlis on human rights, Rabiyat
Aslanova, informed "Zerkalo", 25 amendments to OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly resolution were proposed on their part. "Some of them were
supported by European parliament members, and they were accepted",
deputy stated. Unlike Armenian delegation, as R. Aslanova holds,
Azerbaijani side was very active and its activity was positive. "In
the course of discussions of the project resolution on human rights,
35 amendments were made, 6 out of them belong to Azerbaijani side,
whereas Armenians proposed just one amendment. And how do you think,
what was their amendment…Ovanesyan just added 4 words to the
one of items concerning development of diplomatic relations among
states, namely, development should be realized via "non-governmental,
political, administrative structures". And it was all he wanted to
say", R. Aslanova underlined.

Armenians always said that Armenia didn’t partake in regional projects,
at the same time pointing to "economic development of Azerbaijan",
she added. "But they fail to tell who can be blamed for it. They
have no courage to confess that they are in isolation due to their
own fault", deputy emphasized.

Armenian delegation holds that Armenia is the winner of this session,
as Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey were defeated. This view belongs
to vice speaker of Armenian parliament, head of delegation to OSCE
Parliamentary Assembly, Vaan Ovanesyan. It is clearly seen in the
interview of Ovanesyan for "Regnum" agency. "In the course of the
meeting of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Georgia and Azerbaijan
proposed two resolutions. First resolution concerns the fact that
conflict should be regulated by return of disputable territories.

Three states – Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey – out of all OSCE
member-states supported this proposal. This time, our cooperation
with USA, Russia, Canada and France was very effective" he continued.

Accordingly to him, in second resolution, Azerbaijan, Georgia and
Turkey underlined that regardless of the status of Kosovo, it won’t
be precedent. "With the help of Russia we managed to succeed: no
state but the mentioned ones voted for adoption of this resolution.

Thus, future status of Kosovo can be precedent, and disputable matters
can be solved", vice speaker stated. V. Ovanesyan also informed that
for the first time the issue on self-determination of nations basing
on Montenegro’s referendum entered on OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
resolutions. "It is good example for finding right balance between
frontiers issue and rights of nation to sell-determination. Voting
showed that solving of matters on this basis is acceptable", he
underlined. At the same time, Commission on Human Rights, humanitarian
issues and democratic reforms of OSCE PA started dispute connected
with national minorities, including Armenian populated region
Zamzkhe-Javakheti (Georgia). "Head of Belgian senate proposed very
important document, but she didn’t explain mechanisms of solving such
issues. We added that national minorities should have possibilities to
show themselves in policy, administrative authorities and NGOs. Canada,
Russia and Monaco supported us. Resolution was adopted by majority of
votes. In turn, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey proposed to enter on
following idea – national minorities are obliged to respect territorial
integrity of country, moreover, no one can justify terrorism. I
prepared the report on this theme, but I couldn’t take floor. Spanish
delegation attacked them. Accordingly to Spanish delegation members,
if country where they live doesn’t respect their rights, national
minorities have right not to respect its territorial integrity",
Ovanesyan said.

Having denied the words of Armenian vice speaker, R. Aslanova
stressed that he attempted to mislead journalists and society. In
fact, in our amendments to OSCE PA resolution there are many items
that would serve interests of Azerbaijan. "I’m reading what documents
states. Frozen conflicts and numerous negative phenomena connected
with them undermine stability, preventing stable development and
impede process of general influence on integration", deputy concluded.

J. Bayramova

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