CONSULTATIONS ON PACE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH UNDER WAY
news.am
April 28 2010
Armenia
"Consultations are being held on the issue of forming a PACE
subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh. The process is going on. As regards
the committee chairman, we will deal with the issue later, after we
have arrived at an agreement on further cooperation," Head of the RA
delegation to PACE David Harutyunyan told NEWS.am, commenting on PACE
President Mevlut CavuÅ~_oglu’s statement on his intention to chair
the subcommittee.
Harutyunyan pointed out the speeches made by Micheline Calmy-Rey,
Federal Councillor and Head of the Swiss Federal Department of
Foreign Affairs, and by the PACE Secretary General, who both were
unanimous over the fact that the reconciliation process is going on
within the OSCE Minsk Group. "We must not replace this process with
any simultaneous process, and PACE must be most cautious so as not
to create any impression of a simultaneous process, Harutyunyan said.
Commenting of a statement issued by 20 PACE members, who declared
against parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, he said: "The
declaration has to do only with the PACE members that made it.
Elections in Nagorno-Karabakh are a democratic procedure. The
Nagorno-Karabakh people is exercising its democratic right."