At a meeting on Wednesday the PACE Monitoring Committee appointed Spanish deputy Agustín Conde a new rapporteur for Azerbaijan, and another Spaniard, Pedro Agramunt. According to the Committee, Conde is a member of the Monitoring Committee and a group of the European People's Party.
A 50-year old Conde was one of the 140 PACE deputies who voted for the resolution on June 23 in Azerbaijan, where the authorities sharply criticized for violations of human rights and democracy.
Reason for Agramunt’sleaving is not reported. However, previously the head of the Monitoring Committee Schennach Stefan said that the speakers are exposed to serious pressure and criticism from all sides.
The second speaker Polish MP Iwiński Tadeusz was also appointed this year instead of the Maltese Debono Grech. -02D-
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On 26 December, lawyer Elchin Sadygov made a closing speech at the trial of activist Rail Abbasov at the Baku Court for Serious Crimes.
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It'd be wrong to hypothesise causes of the plane crash near Aktau when an investigation is still underway, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
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As a sign of solidarity with Azerbaijan, on the Day of National Mourning on 26 December the flags of the European Union and France were lowered at the French Embassy in Baku. This is stated in the message on the account of the French Embassy in social network X.
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A memorial panel has been erected at Baku airport in memory of the victims of the Baku-Grozny AZAL plane crash.
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