Neither the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly nor other parliamentary formats are platforms for conflict settlement.

Head of the Armenian delegation to the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly (PA), Artak Zakaryan, stated the aforementioned at the subsequent bureau session of the EURONEST PA in Brussels.  

Issues on the agenda of the fifth plenary session, which will take place on 21-23 March 2016, were discussed.

Considering the situation in the framework of the Eastern Partnership, issues on the modification of the EURONEST PA structure and expansion of its involvement in that structure were also discussed.

During the next plenary session, four reports on political, economic, energy and humanitarian issues will be introduced for discussion and endorsement.

Co-author of the report “Foreign policy of the EU and Eastern Partnership member-states and external threats to their security,” prepared on behalf of the Political Affairs Committee, is Artak Zakaryan.

The proposal on the Co-Chairs’ visit to Baku in order to bring back the Azerbaijan delegation was also discussed.

In his speech, Artak Zakaryan noted that since the establishment of the EURANEST PA, the Azerbaijani delegation is carrying out an anti-Armenian activity and through its destructive steps has always hindered the joint initiatives under the logic of multi-lateral parliamentary activity.

Zakaryan also noted that they won’t be against the Azerbaijani delegation’s return, but this, according to him, should not harm the Assembly’s reputation.  

Moreover, the MP stressed that it’s important for the Azeris to finally understand that neither EURONEST nor other parliamentary formats are platforms for conflict settlement.

He also added that the Armenian delegation won’t allow the Azeris to distort the peaceful process of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani conflict settlement in the framework of EURONEST PA or any other form.