European Institutions strengthen cooperation between the countries of South Caucasus

 

| 03/06/13 | Témata: South Caucasus & Euronest.

On Tuesday May 7, 2013 I had the opportunity to meet the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a French Member of the Parliament Jean-Claude Mignon in Brussels. The reason why this representative of an important European institution came to visit me was to discuss an improvement in cooperation with Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe would like to actively take part in improvement of Nagorno-Karabakh situation. It concerns approximately one fifth of the Azerbaijani area which is nowadays controlled by Armenia.

Both countries involved are regular members of the Council of Europe. The President of the Parliamentary Assembly meets leaders of both delegations and takes concern in organizing joint meeting of these two delegations. By a coincidence these two countries will hold a chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe in near future.

As a Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees I really did welcome President´s interest on an exchange of information and coordination of process in both institutions. Our common objective is to contribute to development of this more than 20-years frozen conflict.

During our debate we also discussed a current political situation in the third country of the South Caucasus, Georgia. There we have witnessed a tense coexistence of a new elected government and a president whose party currently stands in opposition.

The important part of this inter-institutional cooperation is to support democratic elections. Both institutions send their own representatives to both countries in order to observe elections. I also had the opportunity to take part in many of these observations. Recently I observed parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan and Armenia.

In October 2012 I was sent for a mission to Georgia where I acted as a Chair of the European Parliament Delegation which observed parliamentary elections. Due to the same reason I went also to Armenia where were recently held presidential elections. With Jean-Claude Mignon we came to a conclusion that both institutions need to improve its coordination related to these missions.

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