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"I would not call it a lack of talent but dilettantism." Stepan
Safaryan to the Armenian delegation in PACE.
October 4 2014
According to him, the resolution adopted by PACE in 2005 was not so
terrible as the title of this speech "This is just the consequence of
recruiting a barren, unproductive and unprofessional delegation", so
responded the member of 2007-2012 NATO parliamentary Assembly, Stepan
Safaryan, in response to the question of Aravot.am of whether the
decision made by PACE to prepare a report on Nagorno-Karabakh based on
the draft resolutions of Azerbaijan is a result of the Azerbaijani
oil-dollars effect, or the negligence of the Armenian delegation to
PACE. Mr. Safaryan is outraged by this fact. He associates it to the
fact that "our delegation members are excessively engaged in PR rather
than acting." Then, he added, "Unfortunately we either are servicing
someone else's interests, or do not follow what's going on." Stepan
Safaryan recalls that even Azerbaijan was not hiding the fact that he
is going to put resolutions into circulation, which are aimed at
imposing sanctions against Armenia. The other factor is that recently
Azerbaijani President often "rebukes" the international organizations
that they do not fulfill the resolutions adopted thereof, and they
have forgotten the Karabakh problem, and in fact, they had to use
their presidency for the adoption of any resolution on Karabakh
conflict. Mr. Safaryan notices, "The affairs of Azerbaijan and the
West are too tense, and it is sad that in front of the whole world,
Azerbaijan itself, in fact, broke the cease-fire mode, and now it
adopts a resolution, a report, the title of which seems to
legitimizing Azerbaijan's proprietary to the lands and mitigating the
sentiment towards it." Mr. Safaryan believes that our delegates should
have discussed Azerbaijan's behavior promptly after the August events,
which they failed to do. On the contrary, Azerbaijan hereby proofreads
its actions. "It submitted so many resolutions that PACE and Europe
got tired, and to somehow satisfy its whims, winning its favor, thus
trying to induce to improve the human rights situation, is making such
a gesture." And Armenia remains neglected, because its delegates,
according to Mr. Safaryan, "are engaged in PR, making some ad-hoc
statements, or simply raising questions during the sessions or
attaching statements to the protocols and disseminating them through
the Armenian mass media." Stepan Safaryan warned that with such steps
"they cannot deceive the one who understands diplomacy." He was
outraged, "Ilham Aliyev threatens the international organizations and
countries, and endangers their interests, implements a policy, which
torpedoes the plans of the West, and to do nothing under this
situation, moreover, to allow them to prepare such a report, I would
not call it a lack of talent but dilettantism." To our question of
whether it was right announcing during the discussion of the report on
Karabakh that they will not collaborate and leaving the hall, Mr.
Safaryan responded, "It is not right to take a stance of a sulky child
and then come to justify is not right. To justify their sulky stance,
they would come and say that, you know, the British have oil interests
in Azerbaijan, and it will be hidden from the public that all of this
is the consequence of inaction. First of all, this should not be
allowed to happen, therefore there should be a pressure on Azerbaijan,
and an operative action was required." Mr. Safaryan noted that the
2005 PACE adopted resolution was not that much terrible as the title
of this report and emphasizes, "Everything should be done to change
the title of the report name up to putting it in another context.
There is no other option, we need to cooperate rather than leaving and
coming home with a sulky stance and give press conferences, of course,
leaves no room for positive expectations." Stepan Safaryan is outraged
of what the Armenian delegates were doing in summer, none of them
wrote a letter to the presidency of PACE that Azerbaijan is violating
its commitments to regulate the conflict peacefully, which it had
assumed when becoming a PACE member.
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/10/04/167177/
Safaryan to the Armenian delegation in PACE.
October 4 2014
According to him, the resolution adopted by PACE in 2005 was not so
terrible as the title of this speech "This is just the consequence of
recruiting a barren, unproductive and unprofessional delegation", so
responded the member of 2007-2012 NATO parliamentary Assembly, Stepan
Safaryan, in response to the question of Aravot.am of whether the
decision made by PACE to prepare a report on Nagorno-Karabakh based on
the draft resolutions of Azerbaijan is a result of the Azerbaijani
oil-dollars effect, or the negligence of the Armenian delegation to
PACE. Mr. Safaryan is outraged by this fact. He associates it to the
fact that "our delegation members are excessively engaged in PR rather
than acting." Then, he added, "Unfortunately we either are servicing
someone else's interests, or do not follow what's going on." Stepan
Safaryan recalls that even Azerbaijan was not hiding the fact that he
is going to put resolutions into circulation, which are aimed at
imposing sanctions against Armenia. The other factor is that recently
Azerbaijani President often "rebukes" the international organizations
that they do not fulfill the resolutions adopted thereof, and they
have forgotten the Karabakh problem, and in fact, they had to use
their presidency for the adoption of any resolution on Karabakh
conflict. Mr. Safaryan notices, "The affairs of Azerbaijan and the
West are too tense, and it is sad that in front of the whole world,
Azerbaijan itself, in fact, broke the cease-fire mode, and now it
adopts a resolution, a report, the title of which seems to
legitimizing Azerbaijan's proprietary to the lands and mitigating the
sentiment towards it." Mr. Safaryan believes that our delegates should
have discussed Azerbaijan's behavior promptly after the August events,
which they failed to do. On the contrary, Azerbaijan hereby proofreads
its actions. "It submitted so many resolutions that PACE and Europe
got tired, and to somehow satisfy its whims, winning its favor, thus
trying to induce to improve the human rights situation, is making such
a gesture." And Armenia remains neglected, because its delegates,
according to Mr. Safaryan, "are engaged in PR, making some ad-hoc
statements, or simply raising questions during the sessions or
attaching statements to the protocols and disseminating them through
the Armenian mass media." Stepan Safaryan warned that with such steps
"they cannot deceive the one who understands diplomacy." He was
outraged, "Ilham Aliyev threatens the international organizations and
countries, and endangers their interests, implements a policy, which
torpedoes the plans of the West, and to do nothing under this
situation, moreover, to allow them to prepare such a report, I would
not call it a lack of talent but dilettantism." To our question of
whether it was right announcing during the discussion of the report on
Karabakh that they will not collaborate and leaving the hall, Mr.
Safaryan responded, "It is not right to take a stance of a sulky child
and then come to justify is not right. To justify their sulky stance,
they would come and say that, you know, the British have oil interests
in Azerbaijan, and it will be hidden from the public that all of this
is the consequence of inaction. First of all, this should not be
allowed to happen, therefore there should be a pressure on Azerbaijan,
and an operative action was required." Mr. Safaryan noted that the
2005 PACE adopted resolution was not that much terrible as the title
of this report and emphasizes, "Everything should be done to change
the title of the report name up to putting it in another context.
There is no other option, we need to cooperate rather than leaving and
coming home with a sulky stance and give press conferences, of course,
leaves no room for positive expectations." Stepan Safaryan is outraged
of what the Armenian delegates were doing in summer, none of them
wrote a letter to the presidency of PACE that Azerbaijan is violating
its commitments to regulate the conflict peacefully, which it had
assumed when becoming a PACE member.
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2014/10/04/167177/