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On July 3 at the press conference held in the RA National Assembly the Head of the RA NA delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Hermine Naghdalyan, members of the delegation Arpine Hovhannisyan and Naira Karapetyan briefed the PACE session works, which took place in Strasbourg on June 23-27.

The Head of the delegation Hermine Naghdalyan has informed the attendees that the work of the PACE regular session was overloaded and tense, as it was chaired by Azerbaijan’s presidency. Moreover, the President of Azerbaijan and the Foreign Minister visited Strasbourg during this PACE summer session. The Armenian delegation, the Armenian Representation in Strasbourg, as well as the RA Foreign Ministry, according to Hermine Naghdalyan, were active and consolidated. The delegation members worked not only in the PACE Committees and political groups, delivered speeches and submitted resolutions on different issues, took part in free debates, but also had meetings with the representatives of the Armenian Diaspora organizations and institutions, the PACE delegates. In the delegation head’s opinion, as in the upcoming six months Azerbaijan is going to chair in PACE, a voluminous and tense work full of Azerbaijani activeness and attacks is expected for the Armenian delegation. The journalists were mainly interested in not addressing any question to the President of Azerbaijan by the Armenian delegation, in response to this the members of the delegation said that the decision on not addressing any question the delegation had made unanimously, considering inappropriate to give a 30-second long question, which would give an opportunity to the President of Azerbaijan to turn it into Anti-Armenian show and move the debate onto Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict platform, depriving the Armenian delegation even of making a replica, in accordance with the PACE Rules of Procedure. Furthermore, some of those 50 registered delegates would also raise questions within that framework.