TOMORROW ANDRES HERKEL WILL INFORM PACE MONITORING COMMITTEE ABOUT REFERENDUM IN AZERBAIJAN

APA
June 4 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Lachin Sultanova – APA. Co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring
Committee for Azerbaijan Andres Herkel will report about the
March 18 referendum held in Azerbaijan on amendments and annexes
to the Constitution at the meeting of the committee in Paris on
June 5. Andres Herkel told APA that he will brief the members of
the committee about his visit together with the other co-rapporteur
Evguenia Jivkova to Azerbaijan on April 8-11 and the referendum. "The
Monitoring Committee initiated before the Venice Commission to hold
legal examination concerning the referendum. We could not discuss
the committee’s opinion during the April session, therefore I want
to touch on this issue tomorrow," he said.

Co-rapporteur Evguenia Jivkova will not attend tomorrow’s
meeting. Functioning of the democratic institutions in Armenia,
state of human rights in Europe and improvement in PACE’s monitoring
procedure will be mainly debated at the meeting of the Monitoring
Committee. Discussions will be held on Azerbaijan, Moldova, Monaco,
Albania and Ukraine.