news.am, Armenia Armenian official at PACE: Agramunt is a missioner, defender of Azerbaijan's interests 21:03, 27.06.2017 President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Pedro Agramunt is a missioner, that is the defender of Azerbaijan's interests, representative of the Armenian delegation to PACE, Deputy Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly (NA) Mikayel Melkumyan stated in his speech at the PACE plenary session on Tuesday. ''The fact that Agramunt is the defender of Azerbaijan's interests was also confirmed by the speech of the Azerbaijani delegation representative Samad Seyidov. Therefore, today's discussion is directly linked to Agramunt's conduct, which is unacceptable. But he is again absent. Thus, he should resign and leave,'' he noted. According to Melkumyan, the struggle against corruption should be measurable and visible, certain steps being taken by Armenia in this direction, particularly with regard to legislation and administration: the country has adopted laws on criminalization of unlawful enrichment and formation of a new anti-corruption body. ''I think the international community and the governments of different states should unite their forces for preventing this issue and its further overcoming. But how can one work effectively in that direction if, for instance, in a country like Azerbaijan the head of the state himself backs development of corruption, provoking aggressive military actions as it happened in April 2016 all along the Nagorno-Kaarbakh and Azerbaijani border. Materials have been published in a number of official periodicals and other media sources, including within the framework of Panama Papers, pursuant to which Azerbaijani President Aliyev's family and, particularly, his daughters possess enormous wealth in different countries of the world. I had an opportunity to voice about this phenomenon during the previous plenary sessions of our organization. But because the topic under discussion is the struggle against corruption, I would like to reiterate that we should make efficient proposals and provide guarantees for overcoming this phenomenon,'' he said.