ARMENIANS DELEGATES TO PACE NO LONGER TO RESPOND AZERBAIJANIS
Tert.am
20.06.11
At the beginning of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s
(PACE) summer session in Strasburg, David Harutyunyan, the head of
the Armenian delegation to Assembly, said the Armenian delegates are
not going to attend the hearings of the sub-committee dealing with
Nagorno Karabakh Affairs.
A member of the Armenian delegation to PACE, Naira Zohrabyan, told
Tert.am from Strasburg that Harutyunyan has declared a moratorium
as a sign of good will, refusing to respond to the Azeri delegates’
statements.
“Before the start of the session yesterday, the Armenian delegation
had discussed the issue. Personally I had quite a lot of speeches
and was going to call for a probe into the Azerbaijani textbooks,
but because of the decision made, I will replace those speeches with
others,” she said.
Zohrabyan, who is a member of the Prosperous Armenia party faction
in parliament, said the statement will not hold back the Azerbiajanis.
“And I was right because two and a half minutes after David
Harutyunyan’s speech the representative of the Azerbaijani delegation
again made a nonsensical statement about refugees and 20% of lands
being occupies. That will clearly be a unilateral moratorium,”
she added.