Odette Bazil: Cavusoglu has acted against interests and decisions of PACE

PanARMENIAN.Net - It is inadmissible and is a serious breach of diplomatic protocol that Mr Mevlut Cavusoglu, chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), while representing PACE on an official visit to Armenia, has taken the liberty to act as a Turkish parliamentarian driven by his hatred towards the Host Country, rather than a responsible chairman lucky to have the rare opportunity to represent such influential and important organisation, British publicist Odette Bazil stated.

As she emphasized in a letter addressed to PanARMENIAN.Net “If a Turkish national has been chosen to represent a European Organisation (despite the fact that Turkey is not a member of the European Union and might never be) then that person should understand his obligation to serve only the organisation he represents and not his own personal denialistic feelings.”

“The European Parliament has – repeatedly and formally - recognised the veracity of the Armenian Genocide and Statements have been issued to that effect in 1987, 2000, 2002 and 2005. The actions of a chairman, while officially representing an organisation, reflect on the stand and resolution adopted by that organisation: by refusing to visit the Memorial Monument erected in Armenia to the memory of the one and half million victims of the Armenian Genocide - a genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman government of 1915 and formally recognised by the organisation he represents - Mr Cavusoglu has acted for Turkey's interest and against the interests and decisions of PACE.”

“Mr Cavusoglu must be recalled and replaced the soonest possible - before October when he intends to re-visit and re-insult Armenia,” Odette Bazil stressed in her letter.