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At October 22 press conference the NA Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov summed up the results of the conference held within the IPA CIS framework in Saint Petersburg. The conference, where Eduard Sharmazanov has delivered a speech, has referred to the prevention of violations of laws in terms of honouring of human rights and the struggle against crimes in ciber territory.

The NA Vice President has noted that in his speech touching upon the necessity of intensive struggle against racism and xenophobia, has recorded that there is a country Azerbaijan on the CIS territory, where the phenomena of racism are encouraged. In that country the military rhetoric is of more frequent nature, whereas Armenia prepares its society for peace. In this context he has quoted the RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s words on the occasion of the 21^st anniversary of Armenia’s independence. “We should not make turbid the people’s thought and spirit with all-human ideas and null and should not make the young people zombies. The moral and spiritual decent picture of the children growing up in Armenia is extremely dear to me”.

Unlike this view Eduard Sharmazanov has reminded the words of the speech made in the government by the President of Azerbaijan in spring of this year that their main enemy is the Armenians spread worldwide. The NA Vice President also said that the Azerbaijani mass media and the network are filled with such anti-human statements and anti-Armenian campaign.

The NA Vice President reminded the representatives of the CIS member countries the fact of extradition of the Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov, who had killed with an axe the Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, who was taking part in NATO joint teaching courses in Budapest, while sleeping, and had been sentenced to life imprisonment and granting him pardon by Azerbaijan, characterizing it as the most vivid example of xenophobia.

“It is not accidental that numerous countries and international influential organizations, including the CSTO General Secretary and the RF MFA official representative, have announced that granting pardon Safarov contradicts the norms of international law and promotes the growth of destabilization and tension in the region”, Eduard Sharmazanov said.

In his speech the NA Vice President once again has ensured that Armenia has chosen the democracy and tolerance, but not the swamp of xenophobia.

Eduard Sharmazanov also said that his speech made with mentioning facts had been perceived by everybody except the representatives of Azerbaijan, who had tried to load the events of Khojalu on the Armenians. In response to that the NA Vice President reminded the words of the ex-President of Azerbaijan spreading light on the events, noticing that the shooting of Khojalu residents had been the work of the Azerbaijani “National Front” representatives, and the provocation had been organized with political considerations.

On the next day of the conference Eduard Sharmazanov had met in St Petersburg with the General Secretary of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Alexey Sergeyev. The sides have exchanged thoughts on the further deepening of the CIS integration processes and possible regional developments. The NA Vice President has noted Armenia is concerned with deepening of the CIS integration processes and is actively involved in it. In his word, one of the vivid evidence of it is the ratification of the treaty on creation of free trade area in the CIS.

Touching upon the current phase of the NK conflict settlement in the context of regional stability and security Eduard Sharmazanov has underlined that the military solution of the problem and destructive stance of Azerbaijan are inadmissible. He has added that international community should not tolerate any provocation from Azerbaijan.

The NA Vice President reaffirmed the RA official view that the NK conflict should be settled within the OSCE Minsk Group framework as a result of peaceful negotiations based on three well-known principles.

In his turn Alexey Sergeyev has hailed the RA NA deputies’ active work in the IPA CIS, expressing hope that effective cooperation will continue in future, too.

Touching upon the NK conflict settlement the IPA CIS General Secretary has underscored that Russia, as OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair country, is exclusively for the peaceful solution of the problem.

In the course of the meeting the sides also touched upon the upcoming presidential elections in Armenia. Alexey Sergeyev has said that the IPA CIS is also ready to be an observer in these elections.

Eduard Sharmazanov ensured the IPA CIS General Secretary on readiness and resoluteness of the Armenian authorities to hold democratic, fair and transparent elections