YEREVAN. – Even though members of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) were confidently claiming still one month ago that there is no chance to prevent the two anti-Armenian resolutions’ adoption at the PACE Winter Session in Strasbourg, France, and regardless of the efforts by Armenia, they are now enthusiastic, according to Haykakan Zhamanak daily.

“The moves [to thwart these two reports at PACE] by the Armenian side are kept strictly confidential so that Azerbaijan would not take countermeasures. We have learned that several scenarios are developed to prevent the resolutions, depending on how the events will unfold at the PACE plenary session starting next Monday[, January 25].

“And if, however, the adoption of these shameful documents cannot be prevented, a clear condition is posited: after returning from Strasbourg, head of the Armenia [NA] delegation [to PACE and NA Vice-Speaker], Hermine Naghdalyan, will step down [as head of the Armenian NA delegation to PACE].

“Nonetheless, the delegation circles see chances that (…) the reports will not be adopted,” Haykakan Zhamanak wrote.

Two anti-Armenian resolutions will be put to a vote at the forthcoming PACE Winter Session. They are PACE MP Robert Walter’s (UK) report entitled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan,” and PACE MP Milica Marković’s (Bosnia and Herzegovina) report about Sarsang Reservoir in Nagorno-Karabakh, and entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water.”