Why did Armenia fail to thwart the second resolution at PACE? (video)
Advocates of caviar diplomacy back Azerbaijan’s views, a senior Republican lawmaker said on January 27 speaking about yesterday’s vote on two anti-Armenian resolutions at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). On January 27, the Strasbourg-based body voted 70 to 66 to reject the resolution “Rise in Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan”by British parliamentarian Robert Walter. At the same time, PACE passed the other controversial document drafted by Bosnia and Herzegovina representative Milica Markovic. The resolution entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water”, received 98 votes in favor and 71 votes against at the Assembly’s plenary session on Tuesday. “We managed to stop PACE from passing one of the most dangerous resolutions [for Armenia], Gagik Minasyan told media representatives today. In reply to A1+’s question why the Armenian delegates failed to thwart the other resolution, the head of the Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs of the Armenian National Assembly, said, “We worked equally on both resolutions. The second resolution was more humanitarian and focused on social issues. It said that people living in the neighbourhood of Sarsang Reservoir had been deprived of water for many decades, and naturally, our chances of success were small.”
