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Today 21.09.2006
Venice Commission to discuss law "On freedom of assembly" in Azerbaijan on 13-14 October
Source: Trend
Author: A.Ismaylova
21.09.2006
68th Plenary Session of the Venice Commission will be held on October
13-14, Trend reports with reference to the statement of the Venice
Commission.
The next session of the Venice Commission is expected to discuss the
issue of upgrading the law "On freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan". Such
decision was made on September 19 in Baku at the conference held with
the participation of the representatives of Azerbaijan government,
experts of OSCE and Venice Commission, and discussions were held
on the implementation mechanism of the law "On freedom of assembly
in Azerbaijan".
In addition, during the conference it was decided to create a working
group consisting of the representatives of the Azerbaijani government,
experts of OSCE Baku and Venice Commission, which will begin its
activities after the next session of the Venice Commission. The
working group will prepare its proposals regarding improvement of
the same legislation in Azerbaijan.
The previous 67th session of the Venice Commission was held on June
9-10, 2006. During the session, a joint statement of the Venice
Commission and OSCE regarding the electoral legislation in Armenia,
Georgia and Macedonia was heard.
69th session of the Venice Commission will be held on December 15-16.