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AZERBAIJAN ATTEMPTED TO INVOLVE TURKEY IN IPA CIS, BUT FAILED
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 23, 2011 - 17:16 AMT
On May 15-17, a delegation of the Armenian National Assembly
participated in a sitting of 3 standing committees of the
Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of
Independent (IPA CIS) in Saint Petersburg.
Member of the Armenian delegation to the IPA CIS Eduard Sharmazanov
told a press conference in Yerevan that, as part of a sitting of the
Council of the IPA CIS, Turkic-speaking countries made an initiative
to provide Turkey with observer's status in the IPA CIS, thus creating
a new platform for Ankara's anti-Armenian activity.
"The Azerbaijani delegation offered to unite in one package the
matters of provision of TURKPA (Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic
Speaking Countries) and Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy with
observer's status in the IPA CIS. However, we noted that these are
two different organizations, and provision of observer's status to
them should be considered separately," said Sharmazanov. Eventually,
the Azerbaijani side was forced to vote against its own project.
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 23, 2011 - 17:16 AMT
On May 15-17, a delegation of the Armenian National Assembly
participated in a sitting of 3 standing committees of the
Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of
Independent (IPA CIS) in Saint Petersburg.
Member of the Armenian delegation to the IPA CIS Eduard Sharmazanov
told a press conference in Yerevan that, as part of a sitting of the
Council of the IPA CIS, Turkic-speaking countries made an initiative
to provide Turkey with observer's status in the IPA CIS, thus creating
a new platform for Ankara's anti-Armenian activity.
"The Azerbaijani delegation offered to unite in one package the
matters of provision of TURKPA (Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic
Speaking Countries) and Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy with
observer's status in the IPA CIS. However, we noted that these are
two different organizations, and provision of observer's status to
them should be considered separately," said Sharmazanov. Eventually,
the Azerbaijani side was forced to vote against its own project.
From: A. Papazian