YEREVAN. – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) report, entitled “Rise in Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan,” runs contrary to the spirit of the agreements within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group.

Opposition Armenian National Congress National Assembly (ANC NA) Faction Head Levon Zurabyan stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Monday.

The MP recalled that the PACE has decided to prepare a report, based upon which a resolution will be adopted.

“Until now, Nagorno-Karabakh was not called an ‘occupied territory of Azerbaijan’ in any international document; this is a diplomatic defeat for Armenia,” Zurabyan stressed.

In his words, everything possible was done for failure, and an absolute diplomatic incompetence and a lack of strategy was manifested by the Armenian side.

“[And] such demeanor can only occur in the case of directives from the authorities,” the ANC NA Faction leader maintained.