RA SPEAKER: GEORGIA WANTS DECISIONS BENEFICIAL FOR IT ONLY

PanARMENIAN.Net
22.12.2006 13:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian delegations to the international forums must
act in the interests of their own state, Armenian National Assembly
Speaker Tigran Torosian said when commenting on the statements by some
Georgian officials who accused the Armenian parliamentary delegation
of foiling the conclusion of the resulting communique of the South
Caucasus Parliamentary Initiative winter session.

In his words, the accusations are conditioned by the fact that
the Armenian delegation did not fulfill ‘wishes’ of the Georgian
party. Certainly, Torosian said, it would be gratifying if the
interests of Armenia and Georgia coincided. "However the Georgian
parliamentarians wish decisions beneficial to them were adopted each
time, without thinking whether their position corresponds to Armenia’s
interests," the Speaker resumed.

To remind, chairman of the Georgian parliamentary committee on
foreign affairs Konstantin Gabashvili accused the Armenian delegation
in foiling the conclusion of the resulting communique of the South
Caucasus Parliamentary Initiative winter session. The Armenian side
did not support Georgia’s proposal to include the item on xenophobia
in Russia as regards Georgians and natives of Caucasus and offered
to use term ‘a number of states’ instead of ‘Russia’.

Besides, Georgia stands for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
within the framework of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.