Member of Armenian Parliamentary Delegation to PACE responds to  speech of Azerbaijani MP 

ArmInfo.On October 10, member of the RA NA Delegation to PACE Vladimir Vardanyan gave a  speech at the regular sitting of PACE Plenary Session.

According to the press service of the National Assembly of the  Republic of Armenia, Mr.  Vardanyan in his speech, in particular,  noted:  "From time to time I would like to just rise and keep silent  here, say nothing, because very often I have the feeling that  everybody speaks, but nobody listens. It's very complicated not to  agree with the rapporteur about the report, about his speech. Yes,  for sure: far-right ideology should be condemned. For sure we should  fight against intolerance, racism, xenophobia, anti-Islamic  movements, and so on.

But unfortunately hypocrisy rises to the level there; it's easy to  speak about a phenomenon without looking at yourself.

Mr. Seyidov, you say everything about all the developments, but you  say nothing about Armenians, about anti-Armenian rhetoric existing in  some countries of the Council of Europe. You didn't say this. I  understand you. You also didn't agree to include in your report cases  of state-sponsored cases of far-right ideologies. You don't want to  speak about this, and I understand you perfectly well.

You know, honourable colleagues, nobody today calls himself or  herself a fascist or a Nazi. Now we understand perfectly well that  new racial theories are based rather on another phenomenon: on the  phenomenon of racial hatred, which is very well covered with  different, beautiful names. Far-right ideology.

When we were discussing the report on far-right ideology, we became  the witnesses of several speeches which are the brilliant  manifestation of far-right ideologies.

That's why I'm saying that it's much better to keep silent.

I cannot vote in favour of this report for the above mentioned  reasons, but I would like to ask Mr Seyidov in a couple of years, if  your children, grandchildren would come to you and ask what happened  with the Armenians living in Nagorno Karabakh, what would be your  answer.

Thank you", Mr. Vardanyan concluded.