The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe continues in Strasbourg. Two anti-Armenian reports are on the agenda.
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The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe continues in Strasbourg. Two anti-Armenian reports are on the agenda.
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Armenia will host Belarus in a friendly scheduled for March 25, the Armenian Football Federation (FFA) reports, quoting the FFA Competitions Organizing committee.
The match will be played at Republican stadium after Vazgen Sargsyan in Yerevan. The kick-off is at 19:00.
The Azerbaijani side undertook provocative actions at the line of contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan last night.
The rival used artillery weapons of different caliber, 60 and 82mm mortars and HAN-17 grenades as it fired more than 600 shots in the direction of the Armenian positions.
The adversary also undertook an infringement attempt in the southern direction of the line of contact on January 26, at about 04:30. The front divisions of the NKR Defense Army were quick to spot the advancement and force them back to their initial positions.
The Defense Army incurred no losses as a result of the exchange of fire.
The front divisions of the NKR Defense Army confidently continue with their military duty all along the line of contact.
Today the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a heated debate on two reports on Nagorno-Karabakh: “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan”, by rapporteur Robert Walter (UK) and “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water,” by rapporteur Milica Marković (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Parliamentary Assembly rejected the report by Walter and adopted the report by Markovic.
Since November 2015, the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) had carried out extensive work in 20 Member States of the Council of Europe, elaborating on the essence of the reports and exposing their biased character. The European Armenian Federation was also in Strasbourg and closely followed the vote.
Both draft resolutions evidently lacked thorough, impartial research, selectively left out crucial facts and in general cause harm to the negotiation process of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The OSCE Minsk Group had previously issued statements, the latest one being a joined press release, urging PACE not to undermine the negotiation process.
The rejected draft report by Robert Walter was evidently a word-for-word reflection of the official Azerbaijani and Turkish stance on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In her report, Milica Markovic, who never visited the reservoir, used this humanitarian issue as a pretext in order to make highly biased statements on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in general. A brief comparison of the draft resolution and of the technical report, which should be the basis of the draft resolution, makes it clear that Ms. Marković deliberately exaggerated the consequences of potential danger. On the other hand, she left important facts, stated in the technical report, out of the draft resolution, since this information did not fit in with her biased intentions.
EAFJD President Kaspar Karampetian said: “Today the Council of Europe rejected the highly biased and inflammatory report by Robert Walter. Thus, the results of today’s vote can be generally considered positive. The current Azerbaijani Government and Mr. Walter did not succeed in their efforts of using the Council of Europe as an instrument for anti-Armenian war-rhetoric. It was encouraging to see the level of support and mobilization.”
“Unfortunately, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted the rather partial report by Milica Marković on the Sarsang reservoir. It is clear that since the beginning Ms. Marković intended to use this humanitarian issue in order to draft a report reflecting the Azerbaijani perspective on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” stressed Karampetian.
“Now the task of the Armenian diplomacy should be raising awareness on the environmental and human rights problems of the Armenian citizens in bordering areas, facing similar problems, caused by Azerbaijan” concluded the President of EAFJD.
Ural Airlines launches international flights from the Kaluga International Airport. From February 2016, the airline will operate on Thursdays a new weekly direct flight to Yerevan, according to .
Flights to Yerevan will be performed on modern and comfortable liners of Airbus A320 family equipped with economy and business classes.
Ural Airlines is among TOP 5 leading Russian airlines by volume of transportations in January-February 2014-2015 For the first 11 months of 2015 the company’s services have benefited 5.1 million passengers, the geography of flights includes more than 200 destinations.
According to the Federal air transport Agency of Russia (Rosaviatsia) in October 2015 flight regularity of airline amounted to 97,01%. The fleet of Ural Airlines is composed of aircrafts from the European Airbus. The company now operates 35 aircrafts (19 A320s, 10 A321s and A319 6).
International airport “Kaluga” started scheduled passenger services at June, 16, 2015. At August, 18, 2015, the airport received international status, and on September, 4, 2015 for the first time received an international flight. Dassault Falcon 7x arrived from Braunschweig (Germany) to Kaluga. On Board were members of the Board of Directors of the Volkswagen group who arrived with official visit on the opening in the Kaluga region engine factory Currently running regular flights to St. Petersburg and Sochi («Komiaviatrans» airline).
Markar Eseyan, a Turkish MP of Armenian descent, in favor of a biased anti-Armenian report on “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan” debated today at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Eseyan, who was elected to the Turkish Parliament in November 2015, represents the ruling Justice and Development Party.
With a vote of 66 to 70 and 45 abstentions, the Parliamentary Assembly rejected the report on “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan” presented by British MP Robert Walter.
The Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed gratitude to delegates, who demonstrated a principled stance and rejected a report dangerous for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict presented by Robert Walter.
The Armenian delegation said in a statement that the two reports debated at PACE today “grossly distort the history and essence of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and impermissibly interfere with the peaceful settlement process.” “This is supported by an earlier statement released by the OSCE Minsk Group and the speeches of a number of delegates during the plenary sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly,” the statement reads.
“Aware of the responsibility of the moment, members of the Parliamentary Assembly rejected the report on “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan.”
As for the second report on Sarsang water reservoir “a number of MPs voted in favor of it, ignoring the opinion of the international community and demonstrating a unilateral stance, thus attributing a political meaning to a humanitarian-technical report.”
Russia has not initiated the adoption of any new documents on the principles of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow.
He reminded that there are several documents on the Karabakh settlement. “There are five or six documents the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs have prepared at different stages of negotiations as a step towards a peace deal that will be of legally binding, not political character,” Lavrov said.
“Different versions of this document have been deposited with the OSCE Secretary General and are kept in the deposits of that organization. Those are the only documents negotiated by the parties after the diplomatic contacts were resumed after a break with a view of “seeking solutions,” the Russian Foreign Minister said.
“Such solutions are currently being searched for on the level of oral considerations. There have been several meetings with my Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts. There are no documents other than the ones deposited with the OSCE. The rest is a search for solutions, a ‘brainstorming’,” Lavrov stated.
With 98 votes for, 71 against and 40 abstentions the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted to adopt the report on Sarsang water reservoir. The report titled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water” was prepared by Milica Markovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Assembly earlier a biased anti-Armenian report on “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan.”
With a vote of 66 to 70 and 45 abstentions, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe rejected the report on “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan.” The Assembly is currently debating amendments to a second report on the #Sarsang Reservoir and “deliberate deprivation of water” before a final vote.
The Assembly rejects the resolution on escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh – there are 66 votes for the text, 70 against, 45 abstain.
— PACE (@PACE_News)
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