Tells British official everything on her mind
Chairperson of the NA standing committee on European integration affairs Naira Zohrabyan met with South Caucasus Affairs representative of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs Josephine Gold.
According to the NA press release, Naira Zohrabyan presented several issues related to the upcoming parliamentary elections and touched upon the modified Electoral Code. The committee chairperson once again attached importance to the activity and impartiality of international observatory missions in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.
Touching upon political ties between Armenia and Great Britain, Zohrabyan mentioned that the most serious factor in those relations is the British Petrolium. Zohrabyan mentioned that she realized that 50 percent of Azerbaijan's foreign investments belong to Great Britain, but hoped that Great Britain would have a balanced policy on the region.
Then, Zohrabyan presented the relations between the Armenian and British parliamentary delegations within the framework of international organizations, mentioning that unfortunately, the cooperation is inefficient. She gave the guest the recent scandalous article in The Guardian on how deputy of the Parliament of Great Britain Mark Fild had implemented clear-cut lobbying for Azerbaijan in exchange of large sums of money. Zohrabyan mentioned that that was not the only case and indicated similar cases in the PACE, particularly related to member of the British delegation Mike Hancock.
The committee chairman said she could take responsibility and declare that that deputy was also directly funded by Azerbaijan and that he is leading Azerbaijan's overt propaganda in the Council of Europe. Zohrabyan voiced hope that the leaders and political forces of the Parliament of Great Britain would be more consistent in revealing such cases and preventing such things from happening again.
The sides also touched upon regional issues.
