PACE: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN MUST MEET INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
Regnum, Russia
April 17 2007
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe proposed that
Azerbaijan maintained last-year incentives in the talks on Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement.
The PACE also finds it necessary to establish a dialog between the
government and the opposition. MPs listed a number of actions for
Azerbaijan to take in order to fulfill its obligations to the Council
of Europe. In order to increase the role of the parliament, the PACE
also proposed to amend the country’s constitution.
The Assembly suggested that a special group is established to examine
the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan and called the Azeri
government to conduct the presidential elections in such a way that
they become "the first ever elections in the country’s history"
that meet international standards.
The PACE spring session started in Strasburg yesterday. The agenda
includes issues like Azerbaijan’s implementation of its obligations to
the Council of Europe, human rights practices and democracy in Europe,
improvement of the monitoring procedure etc.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
