YEREVAN. – The members of Armenia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will raise, at the PACE Spring Session, the matter concerning the situation in Syria’s predominantly Armenian-populated town of Kessab.      

Non-pro-government Prosperous Armenia Party National Assembly Faction Secretary Naira Zohrabyan, who is also a member in the aforementioned delegation, told the above-said to Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

In Zohrabyan’s words, the Council of Europe (CoE) will have to deal with this matter because Turkey, from whose border the terrorists had attacked on Kessab, is a CoE member, and it aspires to European Union membership. 

In the early morning on March 21, armed militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra Islamic terrorist group infiltrated into northern Syria’s Latakia Governorate, which is predominantly inhabited by Armenians and Alawites, from four directions. Two large groups of terrorists had launched the attack from Turkey. About 600 Kessab-Armenian families are currently sheltered in Latakia city. On March 23, Turkish fighter planes downed a Syrian military aircraft that was conducting a mission against the Islamic terrorists in Kessab. On Monday, a group of Armenia parliament members headed to Latakia.