New president of PACE to keep Karabakh conflict issue in focus of attention

 New President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Pedro Agramunt intends to keep the Karabakh peace process in the focus of attention while chairing PACE. Agramunt made such statement in an interview to APA.  

In his words, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is one of the most important issues and during his chairmanship he will try to keep this issue in mind. "I will do all I can to bring the delegations of the two countries together. I will try to encourage the efforts of the two countries' officials and governments to find a solution to the conflict," Agramunt said.  

"There are still conflicts in Europe with values like democracy and human rights. Though we are calling them "frozen" conflicts, they are not frozen. We are mostly speaking about the Ukraine conflict, the Crimean annexation, but there are also conflicts between Georgia and South Ossetia and Abkhazia, conflict between Moldova and Transnistria region, conflict in Balkans, as well as Armenian occupation of Azerbaijan's Nagorno- Karabakh region and 7 adjacent districts for more than 20 years. This conflict is completely frozen and there is no progress in the settlement process despite the involvement of international organizations. I think that all these issues, including the occupation of Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region and other adjacent regions should be solved," APA quotes Agramunt as saying.