A number of young people held a protest in front of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Armenia.
They protested against two anti-Armenian reports on the agenda of the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
They handed a letter of demand to the vice-ambassador.
Young members of the For Law organization offered two glass jars of caviar as a symbolic bribe to the vice-ambassador thus alluding to Azerbaijan caviar diplomacy at PACE.
Activist Arman Ghukasyan told Tert.am that the reports on the agenda of the PACE session pose threat to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
“We are well aware of the reasons for the biased reports. We have numerous precedents, particularly in 2003-2004, when Azerbaijan was able to bribe PACE members, and we have decided to express our indignation, hand over our letter of demand and offer a symbolic bribe – two glass jars of red and black caviar. If British officials love caviar very much, we have brought caviar for them to reject the reports,” she said.
The report entitled “Inhabitants of frontier regions of Azerbaijan are deliberately deprived of water” by PACE Rapporteur Milica Markovic, as well as the one entitled “Escalation of Violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and Other Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan” by Robert Walter, is on the agenda of the PACE session this January. The anti-Armenian resolutions are to be put to the vote on January 26.
Tsovinar Kostanyan, another member of the NGO, said she evaluates the reports as “encroachment upon the Armenian nation and statehood and the native lands.”
“We now have a generation which will never allow such a disgraceful encroachment. We are ready to defend our motherland, and its interests.”
The activists were at the protests site with banners bearing English slogans.
At the end, they agreed with the deputy ambassador to have a meeting with him in his office to in case the reports receive approval.