BAKU: AGO GROUP’S VISIT SCHEDULE PUBLICIZED
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 29 2007
Ago monitoring group from the Committee of Ministers of Council of
Europe on Azerbaijan and Armenia will be visiting Baku from July 4
to 7 in the framework of their visit to the region, spokesman for
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Khazar Ibrahim told the APA.
Permanent Swedish representative to the Council of Europe Per Sjogren
will chair the group that will be composed of German Ambassador
Eberhard Kolsch, French Ambassador Bruno Guen, Latvian ambassador
Peteris Elferts, Romanian Ambassador Stellan Stolan and Russian
Ambassador Alexander Alekseyev. They will be accompanied by CE
secretariat officials Puarel, Aarnio-Lvoff and Cheliento.
The current state of the relations between Azerbaijan and the Council
of Europe, fulfillment of commitments, election legislation, activity
of local authorities, independence of courts, freedom of media and
the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be mainly debated at the meetings
with the Ago group.
The monitoring group is scheduled to meet President Ilham Aliyev,
Head of President’s Office Ramiz Mehdiyev, parliament speaker Ogtay
Asadov, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, chief of Central Election
Commission Mazahir Panahov, chief of National Television and Radio
Council Nushiravan Maharramli. The Ago group is also expected to take
part in the roundtable on "The Activity of the judicial system" with
the participation of Justice Minister, Prosecutor General, chairmen
of Constitutional and Supreme Courts, chief of the Bar and Ombudsman.