Report on Azerbaijan to be introduced at Kiev session of PACE Monitoring Committee

According to the press service, the report has been developed by PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Andres Herkel and Eugenia Zhivkova by results of their recent visit to Baku.

According co-rapporteurs  this document is a kind of a guide for the authorities towards the opposition before the presidential elections in Azerbaijan to be held in Azerbaijan".

The report will also be included on the agenda of the PACE summer session to be held in Strasbourg on June 23-27.

It should be noted that the session of the PACE monitoring committee started in Kiev on Monday.

Samed Seidov, chairman of the permanent commission of Milli Medjlis on international relations and international ties, head of Azerbaijani delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe left for capital of Ukraine for participation in the session.

The session in the Supreme Rada was opened by speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk

The session participants are expected to discuss ecological situation, established due to burial of chemical wastes in the Black Sea, functioning of democratic institutions in Europea, situation in Russia, Ukraine and Armenia and parliamentary elections in Serbia and Turkey.

Samed Seidov will voice the position of the Azerbaijani side on the discussed issues.

Members of PACE commission on monitoring will meet in Kiev with chairman of the Ukrainian parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Justice Miniaster Mikola Onishuk, as well as heads of opposition and ruling coalition parties.