YEREVAN. – The Armenian National Assembly Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday issued a statement.

“The voting on the problematic resolutions was held at the [Tuesday,] January 26 plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

“The Armenian side had carried out relative work beforehand, regarding the issue.

“The resolutions greatly distorted the history and essence of the Nagorno-Karabakh [(NK)] conflict, and impermissibly interfered in the [Karabakh] peace process.

“The Parliamentary Assembly members, realizing the accountability of the moment, voted and rejected [MP] Robert Walter’s [(UK)] disreputable resolution: ‘Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan.’

“As for the resolution regarding Sarsang [Reservoir in Nagorno-Karabakh], several PACE MPs (…) voted in favor of its adoption, thereby giving a political content to the report of humanitarian-technical nature.

“We express [our] gratitude to the PACE delegates who (…) rejected with their resolute stance Robert Walter’s report perilous for the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement,” the statement specifically reads.

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.”