The Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe’s (PACE) Subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh is likely to be suspended, Armenia’s delegation to PACE reports.
PACE’s new bureau held its first session last Friday. (Some of the subcommittees had been restructured during January and a new president appointed, as a result PACE has a new bureau.) The Armenian delegation is not represented in it but the newly appointed president, French Jean-Claude Mignon – is believed to have a more pro-Armenian stance than the former president, Turkish Mevlut Chavushoglu. Mignon has reportedly offered to reconsider the expediency of the subcommittee’s work.
The PACE bureau proposed to discuss resumption of the sub-committee’s work after discussing the issue with the delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The resumption of the Subcommittee’s work was viewed as a measure to deprive the Minsk Group of its “exclusive rights” to the Karabakh issue settlement, which, the Armenian side believes isn’t to Armenia’s best interest.
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