Rene van der Linden: "PACE keeps the focus on parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan"

"Azerbaijan is a member of PACE. As you may know we have earlier prepared a report on the issue.  The parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan will be discussed at the PACE summer session," Linden assured.

Change of current format of mediatorial mission on settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict is inexpedient, said Van der Linden at opening of the PACE spring session on Monday.

"Both Azerbaijan and Armenia are members of the Council of Europe (??) and we are interested in advancement of the negotiations on settlement of the Nagonorno Karabakh conflict between the countries."

Linden noted there was no progress during the last meeting of Azerbaijani-Armenian presidents.

"Nevertheless, in our opinion the sides must come to peaceful solution of the problem in the final," he stressed.

Besides, Linden said it was wrong to change the current format of the mediatorial mission.

"We will wait for completion of the negotiations through the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group," he underlined. The President of PACE said that replace of the mediatorial format of the OSCE Minsk Group to the CE format was inexpedient, Trend reports.