Karabakh parliamentarians urge PACE to refrain from passing resolutions endangering stability in region

Parliamentary factions of the National Assembly of the Nagorny Karabakh Republic (NKR) came out with a joint statement urging PACE to refraining from passing anti-Armenian resolutions that endanger the stability and peace in the region.  

The parliamentarians recalled that NKR has always been ready to cooperation with international organizations and has always opposed adoption of one-sided and biased resolutions running contrary to the principles of PACE and neglecting the opinion of the OSCE Minsk Group mediators - the only format of the NK peace process.

The parliamentarians express concern that such one-sided actions may break the fragile balance and the tense situation may grow into large-scale hostilities.  
The matter concerns the draft resolution on "Escalation of violence in Nagorno- Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan" (rapporteur Robert Walter, UK) and the draft resolution on "Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water" (rapporteur Milica Markovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina).     

The draft resolutions contain wordings running counter to the Armenian side's stand on these issues. The efforts of the Armenian Delegation to PACE to remove these documents from the winter session agenda have failed. The documents should be discussed on January 26.