COE COMMISSION CALLED ON BAKU TO CREATE APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT
PanARMENIAN.Net
24.05.2007 18:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Council of Europe’s European Commission (CEEC)
for Struggle against Racism and Intolerance has published its report
on Azerbaijan Thursday. The report indicated a number of progresses
during this period, including in the sphere of education. Thus, the
situation of accepting in state schools children whose parents do not
have citizenship or who are not granted legal position has improved.
Besides, a certain work has been carried out in the direction of
creating conditions for national minorities to study their native
language, as well as protecting their rights.
However, some Azeri officials and politicians continue to make
statements of racial and provocative character, which encourage
religious intolerance.
Besides, a certain category of persons who do not have citizenship
encounter difficulties in getting legal position, the report says. The
document calls on the Azeri government to undertake measures, among
which is the necessity to organize trainings for judicial workers
in using anti-racism and intolerance legislation. Also the reports
offers to create a specialized structure on the struggle against
racism and appropriate conditions for peaceful settlement to the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Trend reports.