Azerbaijan’s PACE delegation resembles rotten apple: Deputy FM

PanARMENIAN.Net - Deputy Foreign Minister commented on the approval of a report on Karabakh conflict, containing inappropriate wording, by a PACE Committee.

With a vote of 24 to 16, the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has approved an anti-Armenian report titled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan” by Robert Walter (United Kingdom, EC), a rapporteur of the PACE Political Affairs Committee.

At the Thursday, November 5 budget hearings in parliament, Shavarsh Kocharyan drew the MPs attention to the fact that Walter headed the mission, monitoring the Azerbaijani presidential election in 2013.

“In this report, the disgraceful elections in Azerbaijan were described as excellent,” Kocharyan said.

“Armenia thus came to a realization that everything will be solved through money thereafter,” the official said. He stressed that people in such structures find it very difficult to resist Azeri petrodollars.

“I have to make a rough comparison: the delegation of Azerbaijan is like a rotten apple that spoils the barrel. The European Parliament turns out to have sunk to their level, enabling the Azerbaijani delegation to publicly declare: “The Council of Europe's ours.” Can you imagine? The Council of Europe is in the hands of the dictatorial Azerbaijan,” Kocharyan said.