YEREVAN, November 16. /ARKA/. At a plenary meeting yesterday the European Parliament with an overwhelming majority of votes adopted a resolution recognizing straightforwardly for the second time the right of the people of Nagorno- Karabakh to self-determination, according to reports in Armenian media.

A similar resolution was adopted in connection with the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly on July 5, 2017, when through the efforts of the permanent representation of Armenia in Brussels the European Parliament for the first time recorded the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination. 

Thanks to the persistent work of the permanent representation of Armenia in the EU and the principled position of the European side, as a result of the voting it was possible to stop the adoption of all destructive changes submitted by the Azerbaijani party.

  According to the reports, a large-scale attempt of falsifications, undertaken by Azerbaijan, aimed at neutralizing the efforts of the international community towards the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict, as well as damaging the Armenia-EU relations on the eve of the Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels, scheduled for November 24, was failed.

The Azerbaijani side had made every effort to change the main message and the logic of the resolution. In particular, it succeeded in having 20 amendments added to the draft resolution aimed against  the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict and Armenia, which, in particular, portrayed Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, containing also other pro-Azerbaijani language , demanding  the return of refugees and so on.

It was also possible to prevent the inclusion of those provisions in the text of the resolution which criticized Armenia for its membership in the Eurasian Economic Union. On the contrary, Armenia was noted in the resolution as a link connecting the two integration platforms – the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union.-0-

16:01 16.11.2017