YEREVAN. – Numerous Armenian analysts were acting like amateurs.
Opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) Chairwoman and PAP National Assembly (NA) Faction Head Naira Zohrabyan, who is also a member of the Armenian NA delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), stated the above-said at Monday’s parliamentary briefings.
She noted this commenting on PACE’s adoption of the report by MP Milica Marković.
“Dilettante comments were being made as to where Russia’s delegation was in PACE. Why wasn’t it helping [the Armenian delegation]?” stressed Zohrabyan. “Let me remind [you] that the Russian delegation is deprived of the right to vote and it boycotts the [PACE] sessions for two years already; that is, even if it suspended the boycott for our [i.e. the Armenian delegation’s] sake, it’s all the same; it wouldn’t have had the right to vote.”
As for the respective activities by the Armenian delegation to PACE, in the PAP leader’s view, there is no need to think in terms of a “diplomatic defeat” or “victory.”
“But we must admit that the thwarting of British MP Robert Walter’s report at PACE was received very sensitively by the Azerbaijani leadership, since Baku had placed the main emphasis on it.”
On January 26, PACE voted against MP Robert Walter’s (UK) one-sided report entitled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan,” but adopted MP Milica Marković’s (Bosnia and Herzegovina) one-sided report about Sarsang Reservoir in Nagorno-Karabakh, and entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water.”
