The most important current and potential contribution of the Council of Europe to Karabakh conflict settlement is the promotion of tolerance, Armenian President said.

As Serzh Sargsyan stressed in his statement delivered during PACE plenary meeting, “To this end, we note with pain and concern that hotbeds of racism and xenophobia still exist in the territory of the Council of Europe. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, in its recent regular report on Azerbaijan, reconfirmed the extreme level of Armenophobia and racism prevailing in that country. We regret this fact, because it is hard to imagine such a situation in a member state of the Council of Europe.”

According to President Sargsyan, Armenia is concerned over the tendency, in view of territorial proximity to Azerbaijan and unresolved Karabakh issue.