ArmInfo. Today, at the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the initiative to create a new Turkish-Azerbaijani group called "Free Democrats" failed. This was reported by Strasbourg Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia, Head of the Armenian delegation to PACE Arpine Hovhannisyan.
According to her, today in PACE, one of the Italian delegates proposed the creation of a new political group called "Free Democrats", which included the overwhelming majority of Turks, Azerbaijanis and a deputy from Bosnia and Herzegovina Melisa Markovic, who previously prepared in PACE a pro- Azerbaijani report On the Sarsang reservoir. Hovhannisyan reported that 11 members of the Bureau voted against the initiative and only 4 were "for".
She also said that the appeal to the PACE Secretariat for declaring a lack of confidence in the head of the structure Pedro Agramunt, implicated in the corruption scandal in favor of Azerbaijan, has already been sent to the PACE Secretariat. Under the document 160 deputies have subscribed.