The PACE ad hoc committee on Karabakh is not commissioned to pass binding decisions on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, according to Edward Nalbandia, Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

“There is no need to change the format of talks. Both us and co-chairs stated on uselessness to resume the work of the PACE ad hoc committee on Karabakh. That is the most important. I do not think that it was not useful within the course of its activity. Now it is important that the committee not to harm the negotiations process,” the foreign minister told journalists in Strasbourg. A meeting of the PACE ad hoc committee on Nagorno-Karabakh was conducted on June 20 in Strasbourg. Armenian delegation refused to attend the meeting citing its unaltered position on ad hoc committee creation. As the head of the Armenian delegation in PACE David Harutyunyan stated earlier, the delegation has no intention to participate in a process which bodes nothing but unpredictable consequences and new tensions.

On January 28 PACE sitting the Spanish parliamentarian Jordi Xucla i Costa was appointed as chairman of the subcommittee. Actually the Subcommitte revived its work after long suspension by the initiative of Mevlut Cavusoglu, the PACE’s Turkish Chair.