Baku Today
June 17 2005

Azeri Foreign Minister Meets with Terry Davis

17/06/2005 03:12

Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamedyarov made a working visit
to Strasbourg on June 15-16, where he met with the leadership of the
Council of Europe.

According to press-service of the Foreign Ministry, during the
meeting with the Secretary General Terry Davis they discussed the
questions on settlement of the Karabakh conflict, pre-election
situation in Azerbaijan, Creation of working group for study the
problem of “political prisoners” with participation of the
representatives of government, parliament and NGO, the actions of the
authorities in the sphere of democratization. Mamedyarov invited
Davis to make official visit to Azerbaijan.

During the meeting Mamedyarov met with the PACE Secretary General
Bruno Haller, and exchanged views on the coming discussing in PACE of
the reports “On functioning of democratic institutes in Azerbaijan”
and “On political prisoners in Azerbaijan”. Besides, they discussed
measures for bringing the coming parliamentary elections in
conformity with the international standards, and providing of human
rights and superiority of law.

Mamedyarov met with the members of Monitoring group “AGO” and the
Committee of Ministers of CE. They discussed the questions on
fulfillment by Azerbaijan of obligations before the CE.