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    ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT DISCUSSING ADEQUATE RESPONSE TO AZERI PROPAGANDA

    Tert.am
    27.02.12

    On Monday, Armenia's parliament held an active discussion of the Azeri
    lobby's recently intensified activities at the international level,
    as well as the Armenia side's adequate response.

    Armen Rustamyan, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign
    Relations, stressed the need for the parliament to issue a statement
    on Nagorno-Karabakh.

    In response, Parliament Speaker Samvel Nikoyan said: "If statements
    would prevent this practice [international agencies' reports on the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict lobbied for by Azerbaijan], we could make
    two statements daily. But Azerbaijan will continue its practice
    regardless of whether we make statements or not."

    "If we do not take any measures against the Azeri propaganda aimed
    at distorting the causes of the conflict, we thus allow this process
    to 'knock at our door' time and again. Thereafter we have to take
    adequate steps," Rustamyan said. He noted that the Azeri lobby has
    launched similar activities at the German Bundestag, and the Armenian
    parliamentary groups had to address a letter to Bundestag to prevent it
    from accepting Azerbaijan's arguments that Armenia allegedly occupied
    20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory.

    "If the Bundestag is holding discussions, we have to talk to them at
    the parliament's level," Rustamyan said.

    Speaker Nikoyan, however, said again that statements are of no help.

    He expects practical steps from the parliamentary opposition.

    Mr Rustamyan disagreed with Speaker Nikoyan's opinion. The Constitution
    grants such authority to the National Assembly, he said.

    "Otherwise, why did we address a letter at all? If the National
    Assembly's statements do not matter, how can that letter matter,"
    Rusamyan asked.

    He believes that such statements may prove a solid basis for Armenian
    lobbying.

    NGOs, Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) offices are looking forward to such
    statements, Rustamyan said.

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