Azerbaijan's anti-Armenian initiative at the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) ironically become a resolution “meeting the interests of Armenia”, the head of the national delegation said on Thursday.
Arpine Hovhannisyan, who takes part in the Assembly's Autumn Session, shared her ideas of the document, proposing unlimited access to member States, including the “grey zones”, by the UN human rights monitoring bodies. The resolution was adopted on Wednesday on the basis of a report submitted by Frank Schwabe (Germany, SOC).
In her statement shared on Facebook, Hovhannisyan stresses the extremely important need of guaranteeing protection of human rights in absolutely every place - “be it a grey, black, white or red zone”.
“The initiative originally containing anti-Armenian wordings became virtually a resolution where wording are not only far from any anti-Armenian context but also, on the contrary, are fully in the domain of Armenia's national interests. And this is exactly why the Azerbaijani delegation voted against the resolution. Notably, changes were brought into the agenda of yesterday’s session in an attempt to eliminate or neutralize the favorable wordings. But all was in vain.
“The Azerbaijanis’ aggressive yet powerless rhetoric received a worthy response in the [session] hall by the delegation members,” reads the Armenian parliamentarian’s status.