Co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan: “NK conflict is not my task” (video)
PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan and Armenia are deeply concerned what had happened on the Line of Contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijan, said Stefan Schennach, President of the ad hoc Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Member States of the Council of Europe, in reply to the question by “A1+”. Stefan Schennach is also the co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan.
He says that everything must be done so that the ceasefire is held and no one is killed on the front line. Though the ad hoc sub-committee headed by him today discussed the NK conflict, he highlights that that conflict isn’t included in the obligations of the PACE. “The OSCE Minsk Group must deal with it,” he said, refraining from giving an assessment.
Stefan Schennach says that as a co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan, he is obliged to investigate that country’s prisons, media etc.
By the way, Armen Rustamyan, member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), thinks that Stefan Schennach cannot head the ad hoc Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Member States of the Council of Europe, as he has been appointed the co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan. He was appointed president of the sub-committee before that. In general, Mr Rustamyan has no expectations from this sub-committee. The only thing, which can be done, is “Together with his team he can help Kasprzyk to see who violates the ceasefire, If they do it, we will welcome it, if don’t, I cannot see his place in this process,” said the lawmaker.
To remind, today the ad hoc sum-committee listened to two MPs from Armenia and Azerbaijan.
