The Secretary General of the Council of Europe today released this statement:
“The news from Azerbaijan today that Ilgar Mammadov, the head of the Council of Europe School of Political Studies in Baku, remains in prison following the decision of the Sheki Court of Appeal is deeply disturbing.
Azerbaijan’s courts have once again disrespected the country’s legal obligation to execute the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. Ilgar Mammadov has now been in prison for three years despite the Strasbourg Court’s judgment that his prosecution was politically motivated and was aimed to punish him for having criticized the Government. Depriving a person of his or her liberty on the basis of a flawed judgment is an attack on the human rights system we have established in Europe.
I call on President Ilham Alyiev as guarantor of the Constitution to ensure that Azerbaijan honours its commitments under the European Convention on Human Rights”. -02D-
Politics
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By 10:00 a.m., voter turnout in the snap parliamentary elections was 9.92%, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan reported.
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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