Both the resolutions discussed at PACE were evidently anti-Armenian, Arman Melikyan, a political analyst, ex-foreign minister of the Nagorny Karabakh Republic (NKR) told ArmInfo.
On January 26, PACE approved the resolution entitled "Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water" (rapporteur Milica Markovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and rejected the anti- Armenian resolution "Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan" (rapporteur Robert Walter, UK).
"The difference is that Robert Walter's resolution was about the military-political aspects of the Karabakh conflict, while Markovic's resolution covered mainly the humanitarian aspects of the conflict," he said. The analyst believes that the rapporteurs deliberately launched those games with fire to undermine the status quo. This means that some influential forces in the European political circles need this, he said.
Yet Melikyan does not think that these games will have any direct consequences, but in a broader sense, both the resolutions can be used as stimuli for establishment of new segments of peacemaking practices of concerned actors outside the region. "The problem is that these segments can be applied to the Karabakh peace process," the analyst said for conclusion.