Friday, November 27 2015 13:44

 At a press conference following the 43rd plenary session of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, the heads of the delegations of all member states of the structure, except Azerbaijan, unanimously condemned the downing of the Russian Su-24 plane by Turkey.   

ArmInfo's correspondent reports from St. Petersburg that Speaker of the Council of Federation of the Russian Federal Assembly Valentina Matviyenko said at the press conference that the downing of the Russian plane by Turkey was a crime. She stressed that the incident took places over the Syrian territory.  "But even if we suppose that the Russian plane was in the air space of Turkey for a few seconds, Ankara had no right to shoot it down, it should have only given warnings," Matviyenko said, stressing that Moscow is waiting for apologies from Ankara, whereas the latter keeps making harsh statements.        

For his part, Russian lawmaker Oleg Lebedev said that the relatives of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including his son, have very close ties with the ISIS leadership.     
The heads of all the delegations to the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly shared their Russian colleagues' arguments and unanimously condemned the incident. Eduard Sharmazanov, member of the Armenian delegation to the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, stressed that over the past 100 years - since the Armenian Genocide - Turkey has not changed its criminal policy. 

It is noteworthy that Arif Ragimzade, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation, did not say a single word. He was the only participant, who delivered no speech on that issue.