Policy is inadequate to challenges
"European organizations are losing their reputation by adopting such resolutions," said president of the committee on international relations Armen Rustamyan in regard to the European Parliament's latest resolution.
Rustamyan announced that he was going to propose to create a group with the mission to prevent or present heads of international organizations with the reality of the Karabakh conflict and warn them that biased reports, overtly false resolutions make people lose confidence in those organizations. According to him, Armenians has always believed in and relied on the European Parliament and the European Union.
Armen Rustamyan accepted that adequate steps haven't been taken to prevent the adoption of Resolution 2216 by the European Parliament. "We didn't work hard," said Armen Rustamyan, noting, however, that he had sent a letter to the head of the socialist group and informed that their group is preparing a resolution that can't be impartial because the expert working on the report is a Turk and Armenians are aware of Bulgarian Yevgeni Kirilov's pro-Azeri positions during his activities in the PACE.
The offices of the Armenian National Committee have done a certain amount of work because the initial report was worse than the final adopted version.
"I'm not saying nothing has been done, but we had to fight from the beginning," said Rustamyan who also announced that Armenia's foreign policy is not adequate to the challenges facing the country. "We must make sharp changes to our foreign policy."
He especially noted the unfavorable situation at the Islamic Conference. Countries no longer have the right to a veto and this means that resolutions that are not favorable to Armenia will be on the UN agenda.
