YEREVAN. – There is no great peril in the report, entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water,” at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Ruling Republican Party of Armenia deputy Armen Mkhitaryan told the aforesaid to Armenian News- NEWS.am.

“The main report was Walter’s report which was thwarted, and this was a victory,” the MP said. “The other was about the Sarsang Reservoir. I don’t see a huge riskiness here, since it refers to livelihood. We [i.e. the Armenian side] also have a reservoir which they [i.e. the Azerbaijani side] shut. We may come to an agreement in an interstate form, together with the three [OSCE Minsk Group co-] chairs, mediators, and we give them water, and they give water to the population of our villages.”

Reflecting on the abovementioned report’s content that Armenia could trigger a humanitarian disaster, Mkhitaryan stated: “The humanitarian disaster is all around the world now, starting from Africa. The situation is the same in South America; this is a natural process.”

In his words, it is difficult to prevent such reports with just five or six MPs.

On January 26, PACE voted against MP Robert Walter’s (UK) one-sided report entitled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan,” but adopted MP Milica Marković’s (Bosnia and Herzegovina) one-sided report about Sarsang Reservoir in Nagorno-Karabakh, and entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water.”