PACE co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan Stefan Schennach to visit Azerbaijan on July 3-7
Baku/21.06.19/Turan: PACE co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan Stefan Schennach will visit Baku on July 3-7.
The parliamentarian told Turan that he will come to Azerbaijan from Georgia, where he will take part in a seminar on the activities of local electoral administrations.
In Baku, Schennach will meet with Azerbaijani officials, representatives of political parties and civil society, human rights activists.
Schennach intends to be particularly interested in the case of the convicted journalist Afgan Mukhtarly.
Another co-rapporteur, the British MP Roger Gale will not come due to employment, explained Schennach.
The mission of the co-rapporteurs is to monitor Azerbaijan"s fulfillment of commitments to the Council of Europe, as well as the functioning of democratic institutions.
They periodically submit to the Assembly reports with conclusions and recommendations to resolve existing problems. -16B06--
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