The ink had hardly dried on the decision appointing Mevlut Cavusoglu as PACE President when he made biased statements, abusing his high post for his specific purposes, Spokesman of the RA Foreign Office Tigran Balayan told NEWS.am, commenting on Cavusoglu’s statement on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and Armenian-Turkish relations.

“Disappointing is the fact that a high-ranking representative of Turkey’s ruling party, inadvertently, or vice versa, deliberately hurts Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, which is unbecoming to the leader of such an authoritative body, as its major mission is to settle disagreements between the member-states,” Balayan said.

“As regards the vain attempts to link the Armenian-Turkish relations to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, the international community voiced its opinion long ago. Mr. Cavusoglu’s statements give rise to a number of questions and doubts concerning his further activities as PACE President,” Balayan concluded.

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