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EURONEST PLENARY SESSION SAW NO FURTHER EXCESS, SAYS ARMENIAN DELEGATE
Tert.am
04.04.12
The EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly, which has already closed its
plenary session in Baku, saw no further excess after Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev's insulting remarks voiced yesterday , says
Naira Zohrabyan, a member of the Armenian delegation.
The Azeri leader hurled insults at the Armenians in his Tuesday
speech, calling the nation fascists that desecrated graves in his
country. Armenian delegates criticized the statement, considering it
a violation of diplomatic ethics and norms of correctness.
Speaking to Tert.am, Zohrabyan said that the delegation yesterday
turned down Azerbaijani Mili Majlis Speaker Oktay Asadov's invitation
to dinner, naturally taking into consideration Aliyev's remarks.
After the speech, Zohrabyan and the head of the Armenian delegation,
Vahan Hovhannisyan, distributed some literature on the historical
truth among the participants, to enlighten them on the Armenians'
role in Baku, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the true story behind
what the Azeris call the Khojalu massacres.
A representative of the EuroNest secretariat - a French national -
later approached the Armenian participants and said they violate
rules of procedures by distributing propaganda materials without the
secretariat's permission.
"But I answered them that it was not a propaganda material but rather,
a present that bears the name truth," Zohrabyan said.
Asked what responses were made to the Armenian delegation's demands
to evaluate Aliyev's statement, Zohrabyan said: "Naturally none. This
yet another hazy maneuver by the European diplomacy to claim that
they are "shocked" by the speech of that country's president; but
none of the European parliamentarians had the courage to say that no
[public] figure - whether a president or anyone else - has the right
to advocate violence, racism and xenophobia," she noted.
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
04.04.12
The EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly, which has already closed its
plenary session in Baku, saw no further excess after Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev's insulting remarks voiced yesterday , says
Naira Zohrabyan, a member of the Armenian delegation.
The Azeri leader hurled insults at the Armenians in his Tuesday
speech, calling the nation fascists that desecrated graves in his
country. Armenian delegates criticized the statement, considering it
a violation of diplomatic ethics and norms of correctness.
Speaking to Tert.am, Zohrabyan said that the delegation yesterday
turned down Azerbaijani Mili Majlis Speaker Oktay Asadov's invitation
to dinner, naturally taking into consideration Aliyev's remarks.
After the speech, Zohrabyan and the head of the Armenian delegation,
Vahan Hovhannisyan, distributed some literature on the historical
truth among the participants, to enlighten them on the Armenians'
role in Baku, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the true story behind
what the Azeris call the Khojalu massacres.
A representative of the EuroNest secretariat - a French national -
later approached the Armenian participants and said they violate
rules of procedures by distributing propaganda materials without the
secretariat's permission.
"But I answered them that it was not a propaganda material but rather,
a present that bears the name truth," Zohrabyan said.
Asked what responses were made to the Armenian delegation's demands
to evaluate Aliyev's statement, Zohrabyan said: "Naturally none. This
yet another hazy maneuver by the European diplomacy to claim that
they are "shocked" by the speech of that country's president; but
none of the European parliamentarians had the courage to say that no
[public] figure - whether a president or anyone else - has the right
to advocate violence, racism and xenophobia," she noted.
From: A. Papazian