Baku may change its mind at the last moment and attend the Euronest PA session in Yerevan, Artak Zakaryan, Head of the Armenian Parliament Committee for Foreign Affairs, said at a conference on the Armenia-EU relations.
Yet in early February, Head of the Azerbaijani Delegation to Euronest Elkhan Suleymanov said Azerbaijan would boycott the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly due to take place in Armenia from March 16 to 20. Azerbaijan protested the decision to allow Armenia to host the event, accusing Europe of "shielding Armenia."
Zakaryan believes that the session in Yerevan will not be affected by Baku's decision either to attend or boycott it. He recalled that four reports on the European Neighborhood and EaP cooperation for 2014-2020 will be approved at the plenary meeting in Yerevan. "The reports will cover such issues as communications in the EaP countries, cultural dialogue, energy security, including new and alternative sources of energy," Zakaryan said.
According to him, it will be the first serious event as part of the EaP since the election of the new European Parliament. "We anticipate a more active dialogue at the level of parliaments and political parties. I think, it is time to move forward from the relatively passive point," he said.