AZERBAIJANI, ARMENIAN DELEGATIONS CHAIRMEN TO MEET IN PACE

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April 26 2010
Azerbaijan

PACE PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu has held a press conference in
connection with the spring session of the organization.

Cavusoglu said that political atmosphere in Azerbaijan on the eve of
the parliamentary elections was enough positive:

‘During the meetings in Azerbaijan we touched upon all urgent issues
on holding democratic, independent and just elections. We want it
very much. We saw the real will of Azerbaijani government in the
direction of holding more transparent, democratic and independent
parliamentary elections. Representatives of Azerbaijani government
promised that they would take all necessary steps in this direction".

Cavusoglu also noted that he had discussed the issues on political
imprisonments and arrested journalists in Baku:

‘I am waiting for a positive answer on this issue as well. I spoke
about it during the meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’.

Heads of the parliamentary delegations of Azerbaijan and Armenia
in PACE Samad Seyidov and David Harutyunyan are to meet within
the framework of the spring session of PACE, PACE President Mevlut
Cavusoglu said.

"The meeting will be held at the initiative of the PACE leadership
and it will discuss resumption of the activity of the Subcommittee
on the Karabakh issue", Cavusoglu told reporters in Strasbourg.

The PACE subcommittee on Nagorno Karabakh has suspended activity due
to the death of its chairman Lord Russell Johnston.