YEREVAN. – The matter of the anti-Armenian report, which the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted on Tuesday, is not yet closed, and the Armenian delegation to the PACE needs to restore the real “picture” and neutralize this report by way of other resolutions. 

Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Artak Zakaryan, who is also Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As for the anti-Armenian report which PACE rejected, Zakaryan noted that the recent statement by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, which is the only format that is engaged in achieving a resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, was very important in this respect.

The RPA deputy stressed that the dismissal of one of these two anti-Armenian reports was a result of the active work in recent times by the Armenian side.

“[But] we all need to draw conclusions from these processes to prevent this kind of situation,” Zakaryan added. “Nothing is impossible in case of great and good wishes, the right work. It should be analyzed why we [i.e. the Armenian side] got to this situation, and what should be done so that it would not be repeated in the future.”

PACE on Tuesday voted against MP Robert Walter’s (UK) anti-Armenian report entitled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan,” but adopted MP Milica Marković’s (Bosnia and Herzegovina) anti-Armenian report about Sarsang Reservoir in Nagorno-Karabakh, and entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water.”

To note, representatives of the PACE Unified European Left Group, the Socialist Group, and the European People’s Party voted against both anti-Armenian reports.