As with any occurrence, the anti-Armenian report of the Political Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe received extremist estimates among the political circles of Armenia.
The oppositions, basically, argue that it is the end of the world and, certainly, a sufficient group for the change of regime, they will come to power, save the nation and, why not, the entire humanity.
The government says, don’t pay attention, it’s a nonsense, some corrupted European MPs have gathered together, wrote down a piece of paper that has no legal effect. If the PACE Political Committee is so unimportant, we should not spend the money of our modest budget and send our MPs to various European cities to attend various events.
It seems to me that such documents in terms of political and campaigning are important. Consequently, our delegation members should be able to speak English very fluently, have certain political and diplomatic skills, as well as communication skills with other PACE delegates. If the current delegation members do not comply to these requirements, then they must be substituted. Eventually, there are two former foreign ministers among the NA MPs. One can get beyond the internal political differences and recommend them to enter into the staff of the Armenian delegation to PACE. If they refuse, we can draw conclusions from it.
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Neither the fact of bribery of the member-delegates of the Committee by Azerbaijan nor the fact of the report’s author Robert Walter’s Azerbaijani lobbyist can be an excuse for the poor work of our delegates. But to lay everything on Hermine Naghdalyan and other members of the delegation, it seems to me, is not correct too. First, it is quite strange that the Foreign Ministry “washes its hands” from all of this, “this is a Parliamentary diplomacy” with a pretext. Relevant agencies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the “diplomat-parliamentarians” should be a united team.
But the problem, in my opinion, is profound. It seems to me that we should think about why we do not have true and unmercenary friends among the European parliamentarians. The Russian representatives at best remain neutral on these issues, but in the resolutions on human rights they are obviously on the side of Azerbaijan because in this respect they are approximately “in the same state of affairs.” Consequently, it is necessary to look for friends among the delegates of developed European countries. It cannot be that all of them are “dying for caviar.” But if the relationship is not “money deal”, then they should be grounded on some ideological generalities. Are they available? Has our state, in general, and our Parliament, in particular, been oriented in terms of political choice? Looking at the cases of the majority of our MPs, we can say, yes, they have been oriented. They are the principled and consistent supporters of eating khash and kebab every day.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
