On May 15, in the capital of Finland, in Helsinki the meeting of the Sub-Committee on Frozen Conflicts of PACE Monitoring Committee was held, where the RA NA and PACE Vice President, Head of the Armenian Delegation to PACE Hermine Naghdalyan took part from Armenia.

The 2017 working plan and methods were included in the agenda of the meeting, which designed, among other conflicts, to make a matter of debate also the item of the NK conflict, as well as to carry out fact-finding mission, etc.

In Hermine Naghdalyan’s word, in this crumbly period it is inexpedient to touch upon the Nagorno Karabakh problem, as it can have a negative interference on mediatory process and result in unpredictable developments.

“Such way of the Sub-Committee’s work is ineffective and is fraught with negative consequences,” the Head of the Armenian Delegation claimed in her word, reminding the attendees the item 7 of PACE Rules of Procedure concerning the activities of the Sub-Committee on Frozen Conflicts, according to which, the Sub-Committee can have activities on concrete conflict only in case, if it has agreement of the member states.

As a result of debates, our Delegation succeeded to make certain changes in the preliminary working programme, and the Monitoring Committee made a decision to return to the agreement reached before, i.e. the Sub-Committee should be led within the framework of the designed authorities, and according to the established work-order, refer to the debates on Nagorno Karabakh issue at the end of 2017, as a result of preliminary debates with the Co-Rapporteurs’ participation.

On May 15, the sitting of PACE Monitoring Committee, during which Mrs Naghdalyan, as a Deputy Chair of the Monitoring Committee, moderated the debates of the issues regarding Estonia and Ireland.