AZERBAIJAN ADDS PRESSURE ON COE

Lragir
Oct 8 2007
Armenia

Davit Harutiunyan, head of the Armenian delegation to the PACE,
confessed in a news conference on October 8 that Azerbaijan is adding
pressure on the CoE to prevent the visits of European officials to
Karabakh. Davit Harutiunyan said visits of European delegations to
Karabakh fail, first because the European politicians are cautious,
second, Azerbaijan has added pressure.

Not long ago Azerbaijan impeded the visits of the delegations for
the state of the cultural monuments and the PACE commission for
the Karabakh issue. "The politicians are cautious, and Azerbaijan
has added pressure. It does not mean we are not pressuring," Davit
Harutiunyan says. He says the Armenian delegation he has been leading
since the parliamentary election of May 12 has adopted a new strategy
of countering to Azerbaijani delegation’s initiatives.

"No doubt the moves we make in response are rather successful and
effective. The gamma of these counteractions is going to be broader,
and we are not going to stop on one means," Davit Harutiunyan says.