ARMENPRESS
BRITISH MP PROMISES TO BRING 64 COLLEAGUES TO
NAGORNO-KARABAKH
YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS: Steven Pound, a
British MP, told today in Yerevan that many members of
the House of Commons have very little information
about the Nagorno-Karabakh problem and what has caused
it.
He said there is a powerful anti-Armenian campaign
in the European Parliament with pro-Azerbaijani
delegates alleging that Armenians have been living in
Nagorno-Karaka for a century only.
The British MP is visiting Armenia at the invitation
of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). He had
already traveled to Nagorno-Karabakh to make sure that
the anti-Armenian campaign is a lie.
`Nothing can replace what a person sees with own
eyes. My visits to Gandzasar Monastery and other
historical sites in Nagorno-Karabakh are the best
evidence that Armenians have been living there at
least for a millennium,’ he said.
`I am now armed with facts and can prove this,’ he
said.
The British MP who is from the governing Labor
party, was welcomed in Nagorno-Karabakh by its
parliament chairman, foreign minister and other top
government officials. He also met with representatives
of British government-funded organizations operating
in Stepanakert.
`In Nagorno-Karabakh I met whom I wanted to meet
and went where I wanted to go. This was an emotional
experience for me and also a fact-finding mission,’ he
said.
`In Nagorno-Karabakh I came to see that it is part
of Armenia. I met no one who would like to go back to
the previous situation,’ he said.
The British MP promised to bring at least 64 MPs to
Nagorno-Karabakh, recalling that Baroness Cox has made
64 visits to it.