European body appoints new Karabakh rapporteur

Turan news agency
15 Sep 04

Baku, 15 September: A new rapporteur for Nagornyy Karabakh was
appointed by the PACE [Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]
Political Committee meeting in Paris yesterday.

The head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, Samad Seyidov, has
told Turan that the new rapporteur is David Atkinson. He will replace
Terry Davis, who took the post of Council of Europe secretary-general
on 1 September 2004.

During the meeting, a report prepared by Terry Davis was also
discussed. Seyidov gave a generally positive assessment of the
report. He said the discussion was constructive despite the attempts
of the Armenian side to question some of its provisions. The committee
approved the report as a whole. A decision was made that Atkinson
would continue work on the document so that it could be submitted to
the January 2005 session of PACE.