REPORT ON AZERBAIJAN NOT DISCUSSED AT SESSION OF PACE COMMITTEE
[November 20, 2004, 12:46:53]

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
Nov 20 2004

As the correspondent of AzerTAj informs, the Legal Issues and Human
Rights Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
has held regular sitting in Paris, on 19 November.

At the session, expected was discussion of the question connected
to Azerbaijan, member of delegation of parliament of Azerbaijan at
PACE Rafael Huseynov told AzerTAj correspondent. Because of absence
at session of the reporter, the deputy from England Malcolm Bruce,
to members of the Committee has been represented the message –
memorandum on the resolution (#1359) prepared by him. The given
document, within the framework of the report “Activity of democratic
institutes in Azerbaijan”, deals with the condition of the work done
in the Country in connection with problem of prisoners.

New and former variants of this document discussed at the autumn
session, have not undergone serious changes. M. Bruce has supplemented
the report with new data connected to events, occurred for last
period. In the report, the high estimation has been given to the
measures, which have been carried out in Azerbaijan in connection
with the solution of this problem, decrees of the President of the
country about the pardon, effective cooperation of Azerbaijan and the
Council of Europe in the cause of solution of the question separately.

During the sitting, dialogue between R. Huseynov and Secretariat
concerning the text of the report has taken place.

At the sitting of the Committee, the new document prepared by R.
Huseynov for the first time has been considered. Some members of
Committee have signed the document titled “On the responsibility of
the Armenian state connected to compensation of material and moral
damage, as a result of occupation of territories of Azerbaijan»,
and they have stated that approve substantive provisions of the text.

It is expected that at the forthcoming winter session the document
will be submitted in Secretariat of the Council of Europe, issued
and again discussed.

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