ArmInfo.Pedro Argamunt, Europe Council Parliamentary Assembly chairman is forbidden tohold a session with participation of Spanish King Philip VI, Samvel Pharmanyan, PACE Armenian delegation member wrote in his Facebook wall.
"Under the pressure of political forces yet active PACE entity chairman (surely the last day) Argamunt is forbidden to hold session which he was looking forward to. Humiliating situation implemented to him cleared the suspicions-Argamunt can declare about his resignation tomorrow", Armenian deputy stressed.
To note, despite Argamunt became <hero> of corruption scandal, the reason of his possible resignation is visit to Syria with Russian State Parliament deputies on April 24. The representatives of PACE all big groups demanded Pedro Argamunt's resignation for the visit accusing him on "Assisting Russian and Syrian Presidents and Bashar Assad". Argamunt accepted his guilt and regretted it. Anyways, this did not soften the position of European parliamentarians.
To note, earlier "European Stability Initiative" issued the second part of the report on Azerbaijan named "Caviar diplomacy: the European Swamp," in which it describes blatant facts of corrupt schemes organized by the Azerbaijani authorities with the involvement of high- ranking European politicians. In the report, the Azerbaijani authorities' relationship with the Italian parliamentarian Luca Volonte is described, who has received nearly 3 mln EUR from Azerbaijan for his "dirty lobbying services". The report also mentioned President of PACE Pablo Agramunt who visited Azerbaijan as PACE election observer in 2003, 2005, 2010 and 2013 and consistently defended Baku's human rights record. Considering this, Transparency International and its representation offices in 6 European countries called for the Council of Europe to investigate the statements about the reports on being corrupted.