Frank Schwabe
Head of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Frank Schwabe responded to the arrest of human rights activist Rufat Safarov in Azerbaijan.
‘The detention of Rufat Safarov shows no readiness of Ilham Aliyev's dynasty to fulfil the conditions of Azerbaijan's return to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
PACE will respond to this in January,’ he wrote in his account on Platform X.
Recall that Schwabe is one of the initiators of deprivation of voting rights for one year of the Azerbaijani delegation in PACE. This decision was adopted in PACE January 2024 because of systematic and gross violations of human rights and democracy in Azerbaijan.
The resolution noted that the right to vote could be returned if political prisoners are released and human rights violations cease.
Politics
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Relations with Iran remain uncertain, and there have been no meetings with the new Iranian leader yet. Head of State Ilham Aliyev said this in an interview with local TV channels on January 7. After the Second Karabakh War, the Iranians began to supply fuel to Karabakh.Baku demanded to stop this, however, the demand was ignored.
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Three vessels sailing under the flag of Azerbaijan were detained in Eritrea along with 18 Azerbaijani citizens last November. They are still being held in the African country, but diplomatic efforts are being made to free the citizens and the vessels, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.
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President Ilham Aliyev has said the prospects for Azerbaijan's relations with the European Union are dim. ‘It is difficult to say how our relations with the European Commission will develop, but last year was a year full of disappointments. It was last year that the EU took Armenia's side unequivocally,’ Aliyev said in an interview with Azerbaijani TV channels on 7 January.
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Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council arrived in Baku today as part of his regional visit to the South Caucasus. IRNA reports that the visit is aimed at strengthening political and security relations with the countries of the South Caucasus region.
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