YEREVAN. – The report entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water,” and which passed by voting at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), causes no risk to the Armenian side, and the latter can also benefit from it.

Member of the Armenian National Assembly, Aragats Akhoyan, stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Friday.

“We [i.e. the Armenian side] can show the international community that Artsakh [i.e. the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR)] is ready for talks, whereas Azerbaijan is not,” said Akhoyan. “If they [i.e. the Azerbaijanis] have been deprived of water, let them come, negotiate with the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities. In this case, they shall reckon with the fact of the NKR’s position.”

In the MPs words, the two anti-Armenian reports at PACE were a political directive by Azerbaijan.

“This was a result of diplomacy based solely on  bribery and lies,” he added.

In addition, Aragats Akhoyan lauded the activities which the Armenian delegation at PACE conducted in this respect.

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.