The voting of the disputed reports took place during January 26 plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The Armenian party has carried out corresponding activities related to the issue, including meetings with PACE delegates, introducing their position and concerns about the formulations made in the reports which did not comply with the international community and first of all the approaches and statements spread by OSCE MG Co-chair countries - France, Russian Federation and the USA.

The resolutions greatly misrepresented the history and essence of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and impermissibly interfered in the process of the conflict’s peaceful settlement. The statements made by the OSCE MG on January 22, 2016 and earlier, as well as speeches given by numerous delegates testify to the aforementioned fact.

The members of the Parliamentary Assembly, realized the full responsibility of the moment, refused through the voting Robert Walter’s infamous resolution “Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan”

As regarding the resolution about the Sarsang Reservoir; a number of PACE MPs, despite the opinion of the international community, displayed a unilateral approach by voting in favor of the resolution, thus giving a political content to a humanitarian-technical report.

We express our gratitude to all those PACE delegates that took principled stand and displayed complete understanding of the political settlement process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict during the voting of the two resolutions and refused by their resolute position Robert Walter’s report which was dangerous for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.”