Anti-Armenian statements by PACE President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and PACE Rapporteur on Armenia’s monitoring Göran Lindblad prove once more that it would at least be naïve to expect such people to be impartial, Hermine Nahdalyan, a member of the Armenian delegation to PACE representing the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), told NEWS.am, commenting on the to officials’ anti-Armenian statements.
“None of the anti-Armenian documents initiated by Turkey and Azerbaijan is without Lindblad’s signature. And this man is supposed to prepare a report on Armenia! It is clear that any impartiality is out of the question,” Nahdalyan said. The same can be said of Çavuşoğlu, who does not miss a chance to make anti-Armenian statements. On the other hand, Nahdalyan stressed the Armenian delegation will go on working with the new co-rapporteur in conformity with PACE’s decision. “But I stress that Armenia’s fate does not at all depend on individuals or international institutions. Our future depends on our own steps,” Nahdalyan said.
Following his meetings in Stockholm, Çavuşoğlu left for Göteborg to take part in a conference. Göran Lindblad, Chairman of the Sweden-Turkey parliamentary friendship commission and a member of the Moderate Party, participated in the conference as well.
The PACE Chairman pointed out that Turkey is developing relations with both the West and the East. He added that Turkey is willing to normalize relations with all its neighbors. The most important condition to improvement of relations with Armenia is its vacating “the annexed Azeri lands.” If Armenia meets with condition, Turkey will improve its relations with that state, Çavuşoğlu said. He stressed Turkey has always supported Azerbaijan and will go on doing so.
In his turn, Göran Lindblad, who is an advocate of Turkey’s arguments, spoke of the parliamentary elections to be held in Sweden on September 19 and pointed out that the left bloc, which pushed the Armenian Genocide bill through Parliament on March 11, are willing to submit the Armenian Genocide bill to the European Union (EU) and the U.N. They have reached an agreement and want the topic of the Armenian Genocide be included in school textbooks. To thwart their initiatives, Göran Lindblad called for voting for the Moderate Party and other right-ring parties.
