WILL THE AZERI BE MORE RESTRAINED?

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Twenty six PACE delegates signed under a statement by which Azerbaijan is trying to show prejudice and hatred against Armenia. The Armenian delegates put the document in circulation and the signatures were collected within a day.

PACE Armenian delegates Naira Zohrabyan and Hermine Naghdalyan were approaching the delegates of different countries and presenting the statement as they were passing through the hallways of the Council of Europe.

The statement regards Azerbaijan’s prejudice and xenophobia against Armenia. Based on the statement, the Azeri government is required to immediately put an end to all acts of prejudice and hatred towards Armenia, its citizens and people of Armenian nationality. The statement also calls on the Assembly to observe those manifestations and present them in a corresponding report.

The signatories are delegates from Italy, France, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, Great Britain, Norway and Estonia.

“Tolerance towards one another fits in with the rules of the game set by the Council of Europe, but xenophobia is out. The working style which the Azeri delegates have adopted is, according to us, absolutely doesn’t correspond to the system of values of the Council of Europe,” said member of the Armenian delegation Naira Zohrabyan.

The Azeri delegates in Strasburg are not missing out on any opportunity to criticize Armenia’s policies and are even aiming insults. They dispersed a message yesterday in the PACE that “for 60 years, Armenia has been violating fundamental human rights of 150,000 Azeri, who have been exiled from Armenia in mid-20th century.”

Karine Asatryan

Strasburg