ARMENIAN DELEGATION VOTES FOR COMPROMISE OPTION RATHER THAN
FOR AZERBAIJAN'S PROPOSALS AT BSEC PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY SUMMIT
17-06-2008 18:54:00 | Armenia | Economy
YEREVAN, JUNE 17, NOYAN TAPAN. The information that the
Armenian delegation voted for the Azerbaijani proposals at the
recent 31st summit of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Organization (BSEC) Parliamentary Assembly in Athens does not
correspond to reality, the head of the Armenian parliamentary
delegation in the BSEC PA, chairman of the RA National Assembly
Standing Committee on Financial, Credit and Budgetary Issues
Gagik Minasian told reporters on June 17. According to him, this
information was published in the interview of the Azerbaijani
delegation's head Asef Hajiev with Regnum news agency.
G. Minasian said that as early as at the Yerevan meeting of
the BSEC PA Commission on Political and Legal Issues,
Azerbaijan's delegation had proposed making amendments to the
text of the Report "The Role of the Parliaments of the BSEC
Member States in the Fight against International Terrorism" to
be discussed at the summit, while the Armenian side had
considered these amendments as unacceptable. The Azerbaijani
side had proposed to indicate that the manifestations of
extremism and separatism in ethnic relations create a fertile
ground for regional and off-regional terrorism and that along
with the European Union, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the
CIS, the BSEC Parliamentary Assembly also attaches importance to
the approaches of the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly to the problem
of terrorism. It was said in the amendments proposed that
extremism and separatism must be condemned based on the recently
adopted resolution of the UN Security Council.
G. Minasian informed those present that during the summit
the Azerbaijani delegation once again presented the proposals
which were rejected at the above mentioned meeting in Yerevan.
However, as a result of discussions, these proposals were
modified into a compromise option, and both the Armenian and
Azerbaijani sides voted for it.