The next plenary session of “Euronest” will be in Yerevan
On May 26-30 the 3rd plenary session of “Euronest” Parliamentary Assembly of the Eastern Partnership was held in Brussels, which was attended by the Armenian delegation of ten parliamentarians. It’s worth to remind that the “Euronest” is a platform of comprehensive parliamentary cooperation, a structure uniting the European Parliament and parliamentary delegations of Eastern Partnership countries joined by all the countries of Eastern Partnership, except Belarus. Issues on human rights, the economy, energy security, and culture are discussed in “Euronest” which brings the countries of Eastern Partnership closer to the greater European family. This partnership is expected to mitigate the visa regime, as well.
Yesterday, Hovhannes Sahakyan, delegation member from the Republican Party speaking to “Aravot” said that the most important issue that our delegates were able to solve during this plenary session is that the next plenary session will take place in Armenia in the fall of 2014. It is another platform where we can make our voices heard and our views raised, which will be attended by about 60 members of the European Parliament. We should try to use this platform as efficiently as possible.” – said Mr. Sahakyan.
Usually, the “Euronest” sessions are accompanied by anti-Armenian speeches made by Azerbaijani delegation: this session, too, was not an exception in this respect. “Azerbaijanis tried to put into circulation some problems of Sarsang reservoir, deliberate contamination of water resources, some steps contradicting the international conventions, and so on, but all of them were both completely taken out from the report, and were rejected as separate resolutions because they did not have any connection with reality. However, I understand such rhetoric. Upon returning to Azerbaijan, they will get Aliyev’s whip. The presidential elections in Azerbaijan are scheduled in October, and with such behavior, probably, they are getting ready for the elections. However, any serious anti-Armenian step, a fact, or a case was not observed. Everything went very smoothly, and the most important thing is that all the members of the Armenian delegation were pleased with the results.”, – said our interlocutor. According to him, the Armenian delegation worked quite unanimously during this session. “Also, in the honor to our colleagues representing the opposition, I must say that they were introduced there as citizens bearing the values of our state and our country by representing the interests of the state of Armenia.” The deputy of the Republican Party, in particular, singled out the behavior of Vahan Hovhannisyan, the deputy of RA NA ARF faction, who, when Azerbaijani delegates were just only making their “on duty statements” with verbal remarks, strictly chided saying that there are many problems and issues in the Republic of Armenia, with which he does not agree, but as a representative of the opposition power, has noticed that in comparison with Azerbaijan Armenia is quite democratic, the democratic values are rather developed and are developing, and the Azerbaijani dictatorship should not be placed on the same platform. “Our Parliamentarians were able to represent as united citizens of the state, with joint efforts, without moving the internal problems to the platform by preventing the tiniest harassments against our country,” – said the RP deputy.
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Since this platform, so to speak, is not a platform for political debate, from the date of its creation there has been an agreement in “Euronest” that it is not a platform for resolving regional conflicts, Azerbaijani delegates have only expressed loud complaints that they cannot bring their own issues to the field of discussions. Moreover, the Azerbaijani delegates
appeared in a ridiculous situation, because, during the session, the head of Azerbaijani delegation came up with suggestions on taking certain points out and adding some other points for discussion, which had no connection with the subject under discussion. According to the deputy of the Republican Party, it quite amused the members of the European Parliament.
On this occasion, during the talk with “Liberty” radio station, the deputy of ARF party Vahan Hovhannisyan has noticed: “Generally, balanced and normal documents were adopted. And the most important issue that we had set was finally resolved today: the next plenary session of “Euronest” Parliamentary Assembly would be held in Yerevan.”
NELLY GRIGORYAN
