Armenian MP hopes consolidation against PACE anti-Armenian reports won’t be one-time experience

Armenpress 13:49, 30 January, 2016

YEREVAN, JANUARY 30, ARMENPRESS. MP Tevan Poghosyan, Secretary of "Heritage" Faction of the National Assembly of Armenia, does not wish to look for guilty parties related to the discussion of the anti-Armenian reports and adoption of one of them in PACE. The MP merely hopes that the Armenian party will form defense systems within such structures from now on in order to prevent adoption of anti-Armenian reports as well as promote the adoption of decisions in favor of Armenia. “It is not my style to seek the guilty ones. We did not form a system; we realize our mistake and must not let such attacks happen in the future. We must develop ways to promote our interests, create defense systems,” “Armenpress” reports, the MP stated.

According to him, we already have the best experience of uniting all the forces. “Let’s hope it will not be a one-time experience, but a basis for forming a system for our activities within the international institutions,” the MP added.

MP Poghosyan emphasized that no one will follow “the tracks” of the adopted reports trying to regulate the issues by force; hardly anyone can be found to make investments for the modernization of Sarsang reservoir so that it becomes a source for combined use.

He added that actions must be taken to quickly consign the reports to oblivion, and prevent their being cited by Azerbaijan in different institutions. He added that the instance of the aforementioned is the UN document with negative formulations for Armenia, which, however, was forgotten later.

On January 26 PACE refused to adopt draft resolution on “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan” by rapporteur Robert Walter (no longer a PACE member). 66 MPs voted for, 70 – against the report. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted rapporteur MilicaMarković’s (Bosnia and Herzegovina) draft resolution on “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water” after making some changes and revisions to the draft. 98 MPs voted for, 71 – against. 40 MPs abstained.



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