AGO GROUP EN ROUTE
Author: E.Huseynov
TREND, Azerbaijan
June 13 2006
On 13 a mission of AGO Group will visit Baku. The Azerbaijani Foreign
Ministry told Trend the mission is headed by Roland Wegener, the
German Ambassador at the CE.
The program of the visit envisages a meeting with Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev, the head-of-staff of the President’s Executive Apparat,
Ramiz Mehdiyev, the Foreign Minister Emar Mammdyarov, the Justice
Minister Fikret Mammadov, the chairman of the Central Elections
Commission (CEC), Mazahir Panahov, members of the parliamentary
commissions of the Parliamentary Commission of the Council of Europe.
The mission includes Ambassadors of Switzerland, Sweden,
Austria, France and Romania at the CE, as well as employees of the
administration of the AGO group. The key objective of the visit is
to discuss the current level of relationships between Azerbaijan and
CE, the sate of the fulfillment of CE commitments, in particular,
on elections legislation, reforms in the legal system, as well as
the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ago Group was established in January 2001 simultaneously with the
entrance of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe. It
is involved in the monitoring of fulfillment of CE commitments and
functions under the CE Committee of ministers.