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PASHAYEVA IS TROUBLED

Politics

Leo Platvoet (Netherlands) is to make a report on the Armenian parliamentary elections at the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) June 25, in Strasbourg. To remind, Leo Platvoet headed the PACE Election Observation Mission to Armenia.

Today Azeri deputy Ganira Pashayeva, a member of the Azeri delegation to Strasbourg, presented written questions to the Parliamentary Assembly Ministers’ Committee.

Armenia continues its policy of military occupation of 20% of the internationally-recognized territory of a fellow Council of Europe-member, the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Armenian leadership has consciously chosen to ignore relevant decisions of the international community. Now, the Armenian side plans to proceed with another unconstitutional move, this time the “presidential election” in July 2007.

As is known, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs have on numerous occasions stated that “elections” carried out by the separatist regime in NK have no legal effect and can negatively affect the resolution process. This position, as well as declared approach of the CoE Committee of Ministers and the Council’s leadership on both previous and upcoming polls in NK, continue to be ignored by the official Yerevan. This is especially troubling after the recent meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia in St. Petersburg, which can be defined as tense and complicated.

Considering all of these, Ganira Pashayeva asks the Committee of Ministers:

What legal and political assessment can be given by the Committee of Ministers to the actions of the Armenian side?

Which effective steps would the Committee of Ministers undertake through applying its mechanisms of influence on Armenia to prevent the illegal election from further hampering the fragile peace process?

What steps can be undertaken by the Committee with regard to Armenia’s continued non-compliance with CoE’s known position on the conflict?

Why does the Council of Ministers refrain from making use of effective mechanisms at its disposal to influence the Government of Armenia to abstain in the future from actions that prevent lasting peace in the region from being achieved, including its continued non-compliance with the PACE Resolution 1416 (2003)?

To remind, Armenian deputies Hermine Naghdalyan and Armen Rustamyan represent Armenia in Strasbourg.