YEREVAN. – Representatives of the Armenian delegation in fact made their Azerbaijani colleagues vote against Turkey at the meeting of CIS parliamentary assembly’s committee on foreign affairs.

Participants of the meeting discussed possible granting of observer’s status to Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic-speaking Countries (TURK PA) which includes Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO). 

Granting an observer’s status to TURK PA and IAO was initiated by the organizations, spokesperson for Armenia’s Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov told Armenian News-NEWS.am from Saint Petersburg.

Azerbaijan offered to vote on both issues. However, Eduard Sharmazanov said that these are two different organizations and the issues should be discussed separately.

“Azerbaijan is trying to involve Turkey in CIS affairs creating a new platform for anti-Armenian agitation. Therefore, we did our utmost to ruin this initiative,” he said.

Finally, Azerbaijan voted against granting status to IAO and was urged to vote against TURK PA as well.