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    VERY COLD: WHAT DID PRESCOTT MEAN?
    Lena Badeyan

    "Radiolur
    16.01.2009 17:55

    "Very cold." This common expression acquired a diplomatic color in
    Armenia yesterday due fto John Prescott, one of the co-rapporteurs
    of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. This was the
    only comment of the Monitorin Committee rapporteurs after the meetings
    in Armenia. It turns out that Armenian Deputies have comprehended the
    meaning of the expression in different ways. In any case, Deputies
    are confident that the agenda of the meetings was very heavy and did
    not have enough time to spend in the streets of Yerevan. Deputy of the
    "Heritage" faction Anahit Bakhshyan saw ambiguity in the expression.

    "I'm sure they were not cold. I'm sure that Mr. Prescott and Mr.

    Colombier resided in the best and warmest hotel, and the matter is
    not about physical cold. This ambiguous expression refers to making
    us freeze.

    Unfortunately, I'm afraid that after returning from Armenia they
    will add more freezing points in their freezing report or resolution,
    because thy saw that the requirements of PACE resolutions have not been
    implemented. And the whole nation will feel the consequences of this
    cold. Our citizens may freeze more than the authorities can imagine.

    Member of the Orinats Yerkir faction Hovhannes Margaryan found it
    hard to comment on John Prescott's words.

    "I don't know why he said it. I will simply say that they gave no
    interview after the meetings. I think making comments is the task
    of journalists, they should try to require them to explain what
    they meant."

    Since the European diplomats left Armenia without any comment,
    both the journalists and the politicians were closely watching their
    faces. At last, part of the society came to the conclusion that they
    left Armenia disappointed and angry. Mpp Viktor Dallakyan confessed
    he attaches no importance to the expression on the diplomats' faces.

    "I do believe that diplomats should be able to hide their feelings,
    and if we manage to make conclusions from the expression of their
    faces, then they are bad diplomats. Anyway, I think that Armenia faces
    a certain danger of being deprived of the right to vote. My opinion
    is that if Armenia is deprived of the right to vote, it will have
    negative consequences for our country's international image. Secondly,
    Azerbaijan may use the opportunity to have a number of anti-Armenian
    decisions passed. I have that concern."
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