PACE President’s aspiration to resume activities of sub-commission on Karabakh is not so understandable, the head of standing committee on European integration and member of Armenian delegation to PACE Naira Zohrabyan told NEWS.am, commenting on Mevlut Cavusoglu’s statement.

“I definitely can catch the implication of his aspiration, induced by the Azerbaijani lobby pressure. He seeks to shift Karabakh issue from OSCE Minsk Group to PACE. However, the point is why the issue should be discussed within Council of Europe, while to date organization devoted almost no attention to state of human rights or elections in Nagorno-Karabakh,” MP said, noting that Cavusoglu spoke about sub-commission back in the course of PACE January session. According to her, PACE President pledged to discuss the matter with heads of Armenian and Azerbaijani delegations to PACE during the April session. However, Zohrabyan deems that the issue should be discussed also with delegation members as she personally has a lot to say.

MP also informed that Cavusoglu is likely to visit Armenia after April session. The official mentioned that she prepares a report about women rights in conflicting and post-conflicting regions to be presented during PACE session held on April 26-30. The report describes terrible sufferings of Armenian women and children in Azerbaijani cities of Baku, Sumgait, Maraga in the end of 20th century.

Earlier, Mevlut Cavusoglu arrived in Azerbaijan and held meetings with local parliament representatives, stating the necessity to set up PACE sub-commission on Nagorno-Karabakh.

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