The Chairman of the European Union Parliamentary Assembly (EUPA) Rene van der Linden will visit Azerbaijan on 21 August 2005 as part of his tour of the South Caucasus.
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The EUPA’s secretariat told Trend that the visit came as the first tour of the EUPA’s Chairman since his election to this position in January, 2005.
On 21- 23 August 2005 the Chairman of the PA will have meetings with President Ilham Aliyev, Speaker Murtuz Alasgarov, Prime-minister Artur Rasizade, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, as well as the leaders of the opposition and mass media. He will also meet the religious leader of the Caucasus Muslims, Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade.
The meetings will center on the parliamentary elections, that will take place in November, political prisoners and settlement of Naghorno-Karabakh conflict.
At 18:00 on August 23 Rene van der Linden will give a news conference at the Baku-based Information office of the European Union.