PACE REPORTER ADVISES AZERBAIJAN NOT TO RELY ON OIL-DOLLARS AND GEORGE
BUSH’S SUPPORT

Yerevan, May 29. ArmInfo. PACE Leadership may receive recommendations
to revise the mandate of Azerbaijani delegation at any moment during
the Summer Session, declared Andreas Gross, PACE Co-Reporter on
fulfillment of Azerbaijan’s commitments to the CE, Day.az reports.

A. Gross briefed Sunday that the repeated parliamentary elections in
Azerbaijan on 13 May did not differ much from those in November
2005. He supposed that there will be not less criticism during the
upcoming discussions of the election results in Azerbaijan than it was
at PACE January Session. In his turn, Andres Herkel, the second
Co-reporter, expressed a supposition that the Azerbaijani authorities
have no intention to amend the Election Code to form election
commissions on parity basis although it is the key requirement for
free and democratic elections.

Andreas Gross urged the authorities of Azerbaijan to take measures to
improve the atmosphere of democracy in the country. He stressed that
the oligarchs in the surroundings of Azerbaijani President rely only
on incomes from oil, whereas they should think over democratic
development of the country in future when there will be neither oil
reserves nor the support from these oligarchs in the person of
U.S. President.