Armenia sends a mission to Europe to prevent anti-Armenian report to PACE

In the early days of the new year the  Armenian authorities are making active efforts to prevent the adoption  at  the PACE winter session of the two reports – by  the Briton Robert Walter "The escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied regions of Azerbaijan" and MP from Bosnia and Herzegovina Milica Markovic "Residents of border regions of Azerbaijan deliberately deprived of water."

According to Armenian media, to prevent the possible adoption of the report  Yerevan uses not only official channels of the embassies, but also the resources of its Diaspora. In these days in various European capitals, representatives of Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora are trying to persuade their foreign colleagues to vote against these reports.

In particular, such a mission in the Baltic states headed  the vice-speaker of Armenian parliament Eduard Sharmazanov. Then he will visit the Czech Republic and Greece.

With a similar mission to Bucharest and  Warsaw  went the  head of the parliamentary commission on state legal issues Hovhannes Sahakyan. In various European countries were sent  the head of the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs Artak Zakaryan and co-chair of the Commission on Armenia-EU cooperation Farmanyan.

Meanwhile, the European office of Hay Dat (EAFJD) has initiated a collection of signatures in Change.or against the  anti-Armenian PACE reports.  The debate and vote on both reports in PACE  were scheduled for January 26.

These documents contain  wordings   confirming the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenians, and violation of principles of international law in the Karabakh conflict.

Earlier attempts of the Armenian side to obtain  the exclusion of the documents from the agenda of the PACE winter session failed. -02D-