AZERBAIJAN NOT TO ATTEND EURONEST PA SESSION IN YEREVAN

APA, Azerbaijan
Feb 9 2015

Elkhan Suleymanov: “This organization keeps Armenia under its umbrella
and attempts to insure Armenia from any sanctions and responsibility
for its aggressive criminal actions against Azerbaijan”

Azerbaijan will not attend the Euronest PA session to take place in
Yerevan on 1618 March, Elkhan Suleymanov, Chairman of Azerbaijani
Delegation to the Euronest PA, told APA.

E. Suleymanov said bureau meeting of the Euronest PA will take place
in Strasbourg on February 11, 2015. The meeting will discuss the draft
agenda of the 4th plenary session, among other issues. The 4th plenary
session of the Euronest PA will be held in Yerevan between 16th and
18th March of 2015, and this decision was adopted by Bureau in 2014.

“It should be noted that the Azerbaijani delegation repeatedly and
resolutely expressed its objection against holding the Euronest PA
sessions, Bureau and Committees’ meetings in Armenia, as well as
against cochairmanship of Armenia to the Euronest PA, during Bureau
meetings between 2011 and 2014.

The Azerbaijani delegation highlighted in its statements that it is
inadmissible to hold the Euronest PA sessions, Bureau and Committees’
meetings in Armenia and to allow Armenia to cochair the Euronest PA
until Nagorno Karabakh and 7 surrounding provinces are liberated,
threat for frontier provinces of Azerbaijan with 400 thousand
population is fully eliminated as a result of the occupation of
Sarsang reservoir for over 23 years, blockade of Nakhchivan is ended.

Furthermore, the Azerbaijani delegation unambiguously stated that
it won’t attend plenary sessions and meetings of the institution to
be held in Armenia. Therefore, the decision on holding the plenary
session of the Euronest PA in Yerevan was adopted despite resolute
objections of Azerbaijani delegation,” he noted.

E. Suleymanov added that the point of attention is that the 4th session
of the Euronest PA in Yerevan will coincide with 100th anniversary
of socalled Armenian genocide. Undoubtedly, the Armenian side will
use this international event as a means of propagation of socalled
Armenian genocide.

“I’d like particularly underline that despite the fact that Armenia
signed a Customs Union agreement and joined the the Eurasian Economic
Union, the Euronest PA neither expressed its attitude towards this
fact nor discussed this situation.

On the contrary, the fact that the plenary session of the Euronest PA
will be held in this country in such situation proves the approval of
Armenia’s political decisions to join the abovementioned institutions.

And this means that Armenia will achieve the adoption of any decision
in favor of its own interests during Yerevan session of the Euronest
PA. On the other hand, Yerevan session provides the Armenian side
with additional opportunities for propaganda of 100th anniversary of
socalled Armenian genocide.

We witnessed double standards policy regarding Azerbaijan for
several times within the Euronest PA, as it was the case in other
international organizations. Despite our multiple efforts, it was
impossible so far to discuss the fact of the occupation of 20% of
Azerbaijani territories by Armenia for over 23 years in Committees’
meetings and plenary sessions of Euronest PA.

We always faced a statement that Euronest PA is not an institution able
to solve the issue of NagornoKarabakh and other occupied territories,”
he underlined.

E. Suleymanov went on to add that it’s clear that on the background
of the annexation of Crimea to Russia and armed confrontations
in the southeast of Ukraine, a number of leading world states
and international organizations, as well as the European Union,
demonstrate highlevel support to Ukraine.

“Nevertheless, despite the fact that we claimed the adoption of
documents regarding sanctions against aggressor Armenia by demanding
the same level of support to Azerbaijan, territories of which have
been occupied for long, our efforts were definitely blocked by
different means.

Thus, as other international organizations, the Euronest PA, a
parliamentary institution of the European Union within the framework
of Eastern Partnership program, keeps Armenia under its umbrella and
attempts to insure Armenia from any sanctions and responsibility for
its aggressive criminal actions against Azerbaijan.

At the same time, Euronest PA confirms itself to be a propagation
facility in promoting these stupid claims among the world community
by holding its 4th session in Yerevan on the eve of 100th anniversary
of socalled Armenian genocide.

Interestingly, this institution, which actually supports socalled
Armenian genocide, doesn’t take into account that Armenians, who
are going to celebrate 100th anniversary of socalled claims, have
been committing genocide crimes against the Azerbaijani people since
1905 and that genocide crimes of Armenians against Azerbaijani people
continues for already 110 years.

Finally, I’d like to stress once again that Azerbaijani delegation
insists on its position, and we won’t attend the plenary session to
be held in Yerevan,” he completed.