Armenia to boycott PACE session Karabakh talks

Armenia will boycott renewed discussions on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict at the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).

Izvor: RFE/RL

Thursday, 13.01.2011.

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Armenia will boycott renewed discussions on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict at the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). The county's delegation chief Naira Zohrabyan made the statement on Thursday, RFE/RL reports. Armenia to boycott PACE session Karabakh talks The talks have been championed by PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu, who intends to revive a PACE subcommittee tasked with facilitating a peaceful resolution of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict during the assembly's winter session later this month. Its existence is envisaged by a 2005 PACE resolution. "If PACE revives the activities of the subcommittee... the Armenian delegation will boycott it and not take part in its work," Zohrabyan told reporters. She said Cavusoglu and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu would seek to restore the subcommittee and lend support to Azerbaijan. Armenia has been involved in a bitter dispute with neighboring Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh since 1988, when the ethnic Armenian region broke away from Azerbaijan and sought support from Armenia.

Armenia to boycott PACE session Karabakh talks

The talks have been championed by PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu, who intends to revive a PACE subcommittee tasked with facilitating a peaceful resolution of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict during the assembly's winter session later this month.

Its existence is envisaged by a 2005 PACE resolution.

"If PACE revives the activities of the subcommittee... the Armenian delegation will boycott it and not take part in its work," Zohrabyan told reporters.

She said Cavusoglu and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu would seek to restore the subcommittee and lend support to Azerbaijan.

Armenia has been involved in a bitter dispute with neighboring Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh since 1988, when the ethnic Armenian region broke away from Azerbaijan and sought support from Armenia.

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