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EU-Armenia Parliamentary Committee ends session without joint statement
00:34 * 07.02.14
The EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee closed its regular
session in Strasburg without adopting a joint statement or reaching
any accord over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Samvel Farmanyan, the Committee's Armenian co-chair, has expressed his
concerns in this connection in Facebook.
"The European parliamentarians think that approaches not contributing
to a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be the
best way of expressing their discontent with the recent foreign policy
decisions by Armenia.
"The activities of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee normally
end with the adoption of a joint statement which fixes the common
approaches of the European Parliament and the Armenian National
Assembly with regard to the agenda issues: Armenia-EU relations,
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia-Turkey relations and regional
developments.
"I have to state with regret that we didn't manage to adopt such a
statement this year. Strange though it may seem, the reason was not
the impossibility of combining the two sides' positions on the
Armenia-EU relations, the latest developments or future prospects -
which was easily done - but rather, the proposals essentially
circumventing the EU official position and the logic and wording of
similar statements adopted in the same parliamentary format in the
past (2012), continuing the wicked practice of putting an equal sign
between the parties to the conflict, and not having any justification
at all, as well as the rejection of our desire to find mutually
acceptable wordings," he says.
The committee's 14th session, which was the first since the latest
developments in the EU-Armenia relations (Armenia's political U-turn
to the Russian-led Customs Union), was held in Strasburg between
February 5 and 6.
Mr Farmanyan, who represents the ruling Republican faction in
Armenia's parliament, says both he and the other delegation members
have ruled out the possibility of adopting any joint statement not
favorable for Armenia or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
He promises that the delegation will call a press conference upon its
return to Armenia to introduce more details on the outcomes of the
meeting (which is expected to attract wide public attention).
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/02/07/farmanyan-samvel/
00:34 * 07.02.14
The EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee closed its regular
session in Strasburg without adopting a joint statement or reaching
any accord over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Samvel Farmanyan, the Committee's Armenian co-chair, has expressed his
concerns in this connection in Facebook.
"The European parliamentarians think that approaches not contributing
to a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be the
best way of expressing their discontent with the recent foreign policy
decisions by Armenia.
"The activities of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee normally
end with the adoption of a joint statement which fixes the common
approaches of the European Parliament and the Armenian National
Assembly with regard to the agenda issues: Armenia-EU relations,
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia-Turkey relations and regional
developments.
"I have to state with regret that we didn't manage to adopt such a
statement this year. Strange though it may seem, the reason was not
the impossibility of combining the two sides' positions on the
Armenia-EU relations, the latest developments or future prospects -
which was easily done - but rather, the proposals essentially
circumventing the EU official position and the logic and wording of
similar statements adopted in the same parliamentary format in the
past (2012), continuing the wicked practice of putting an equal sign
between the parties to the conflict, and not having any justification
at all, as well as the rejection of our desire to find mutually
acceptable wordings," he says.
The committee's 14th session, which was the first since the latest
developments in the EU-Armenia relations (Armenia's political U-turn
to the Russian-led Customs Union), was held in Strasburg between
February 5 and 6.
Mr Farmanyan, who represents the ruling Republican faction in
Armenia's parliament, says both he and the other delegation members
have ruled out the possibility of adopting any joint statement not
favorable for Armenia or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
He promises that the delegation will call a press conference upon its
return to Armenia to introduce more details on the outcomes of the
meeting (which is expected to attract wide public attention).
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/02/07/farmanyan-samvel/