PACE WINTER SESSION OPENS TODAY

Azerbaijan Business Center
Jan 26 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku, Fineko/abc.az The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe (PACE) is starting in Strasbourg today.

The CE official website says that in the course of the session it will
be heard out reports on work done by the Assembly Office and Permanent
Committee, discussed a whole range of agenda issues, in partiuclar
election of judges of the European Court of Human Rights, co-operation
with International Criminal Court, investigation of criminal cases (for
instance, the Gongadze case), committed by high-ranking officiasls in
period of ruiling of former Ukrainian presidenrt Leonid Kuchma, Middle
East conflict and global financial crisis. The session is expected to
conduct wide debates on consequences of war between Russia and Georgia
to last the whole day on 28 January. On the same day on session agenda
is discussion of another matter that is important for Azerbaijan –
electronic media without frontiers in Europe.

On the threshold of the PACE session Andreas Herkel, co-rapporteur
of the PACE Monitoring Committee, told to the Azerbaijan media about
his intention to raise within the session the matter of broadcasting
of foreign radio channels in Azerbaijan.

This session can prove to be uneasy for Armenia taking into account
upcoming blaming of future Armenian delegation in PACE. It will
be considered how Armenia implemented the last year’s resolutions
relating to release of political prisoners and impartial investigation
of events of last March. The session is due to last until 30 January.

The Milli Majlis press service has informed that the session
involves Azerbaijani group of MPs at the head of Samed Seyidov, the
chairman of the Parliamentary Permanent Commission on International &
Inter-Parliamentary Relations. The Azerbaijani delegation also includes
MPs Gultekin Hajiyeva, Ganira Pashayeva and Sabir Hajiyev.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress