ARMENIANS MAKE BAKU VOTE AGAINST TURKEY AT CIS MEETING

news.am
May 16 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – Representatives of the Armenian delegation in fact made
their Azerbaijani colleagues vote against Turkey at the meeting of
CIS parliamentary assembly’s committee on foreign affairs.

Participants of the meeting discussed possible granting of observer’s
status to Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic-speaking Countries
(TURK PA) which includes Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan,
and Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO).

Granting an observer’s status to TURK PA and IAO was initiated by
the organizations, spokesperson for Armenia’s Republican Party Eduard
Sharmazanov told Armenian News-NEWS.am from Saint Petersburg.

Azerbaijan offered to vote on both issues. However, Eduard Sharmazanov
said that these are two different organizations and the issues should
be discussed separately.

“Azerbaijan is trying to involve Turkey in CIS affairs creating a new
platform for anti-Armenian agitation. Therefore, we did our utmost
to ruin this initiative,” he said.

Finally, Azerbaijan voted against granting status to IAO and was
urged to vote against TURK PA as well.