“Consultations are being held on the issue of forming a PACE subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh. The process is going on. As regards the committee chairman, we will deal with the issue later, after we have arrived at an agreement on further cooperation,” Head of the RA delegation to PACE David Harutyunyan told NEWS.am, commenting on PACE President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s statement on his intention to chair the subcommittee.

Harutyunyan pointed out the speeches made by Micheline Calmy-Rey, Federal Councillor and Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and by the PACE Secretary General, who both were unanimous over the fact that the reconciliation process is going on within the OSCE Minsk Group. "We must not replace this process with any simultaneous process, and PACE must be most cautious so as not to create any impression of a simultaneous process, Harutyunyan said.

Commenting of a statement issued by 20 PACE members, who declared against parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, he said: “The declaration has to do only with the PACE members that made it. Elections in Nagorno-Karabakh are a democratic procedure. The Nagorno-Karabakh people is exercising its democratic right.”

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