Armenian information security expert, coordinator of the specialized military website Razm.info Karen Vrtanesyan has reacted to the uproar sparked by the vote of the Russian delegation to PACE against debates on the issue of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) in Azerbaijan.
“Our memory is already adapted to the 24-hour cycle “Yerkir-Haykakan Zhamanak”; we quickly forget everything, then we are surprised and indignant …
“For instance, let me remind you of a fact about the vote of the Russian delegation at PACE, which everyone seems to have forgotten: the Armenian authorities refused to negotiate with Azerbaijan on the issue of prisoners of war and transferred responsibility for settling this issue to the Russian side. It’s now Russians who are negotiating the return of our prisoners,” Vrtanesyan wrote on Facebook.
“Now the question is: was the move to raise the issue of prisoners of war at PACE agreed with the Russian side in advance? I reiterate that the negotiators are Russians, and it was the Armenian authorities who authorized Russia to deal with this issue.
"If they failed to agree the move with the Russian delegation in advance, it turns out that with that uncoordinated step, the Armenian side, in fact, inflicted a blow to the negotiations,” he said.