Georgian Defense Minister Tinatin Khidasheli, who is currently in Yerevan on an official visit, refused to comment on the PACE voting of the Georgian lawmakers on the reports "The inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water" by Milica Markovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and "Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan" by Robert Walter (UK).
"I am no longer a lawmaker and it is not within my powers to comment on such issues. However, I can say that according to the statistics the Armenian and Georgian delegations are discontent with each other's decisions. This is politics," the Georgian minister said in Yerevan, during today's joint press conference with her Armenian counterpart Seyran Ohanyan.
On January 26, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted the document based on the report "The inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water" by Milica Markovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina). At the same time, PACE voted not to adopt a resolution on "Escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and the other occupied territories of Azerbaijan" based on a report by British former PACE member Robert Walter. The report was presented by Mogens Jensen, as Robert Walter is no longer a PACE member.
The Georgian lawmakers voted for the both anti-Armenian reports.