PACE President Starts Tour of S Caucasus

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Aug 19 2005

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE) Rene van Der Linden started his tour of the South Caucasus
region in Armenia on Thursday.

Linden will hold official and informal meetings in Yerevan to discuss
the political situation in Armenia and this country’s commitments to
the Council of Europe.

The PACE President, who will then leave for Tbilisi, is due in
Baku on August 21. He will meet with President Ilham Aliyev, Prime
Minister Artur Rasizada, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and
representatives of the Azeri delegation at PACE. Linden will also
meet with representatives of human rights organizations.