HAK representatives met with PACE President
PACE President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu today refrained from answering A1+'s questions saying, "I am in a hurry. Keep you questions for tomorrow's news conference."
A1+'s correspondent met Mr. Çavuşoğlu near the Erebuni Hotel where the CoE Yerevan Office is located. Before that, the PACE President had met with the representatives of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Zurabyan, Avetis Avagyan and Vladimir Karapetyan.
HAK members tried to find out why Mr. Çavuşoğlu had refused to visit the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial.
"Çavuşoğlu said such a protocol has not been applied to other PACE presidents. And he chose not to pay a visit to Tsitsernakaberd," said Levon Zurabyan.
The HAK representatives told Mr. Çavuşoğlu that the steps of PACE structures are inadequate with the situation. In particular, they criticized PACE Monitoring Committee, CoE Human Rights Commissioner, PACE Co- Rapporteurs on Armenia, CoE Office in Yerevan, CoE observation missions deployed during Armenian elections.
They also sounded against the discussion of the Karabakh conflict in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
"We are convinced that the Minsk group is the best and optimal format of negotiations and all alternative formats are non-constructive and will sooner or later mislead the negotiating parties. Each time they find the negotiation process unfavorable for them, they propose other formats," said HAK members.
