Strasbourg / 10.10.17 / Turan: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected the Cyprian parliamentarian Stella Kyriakides as the new head of the PACE by a majority of votes in the third round. Kyriakides will lead the Assembly until January 2018, when PACE will again elect a chairman, but from a new political group.
Stella Kyriakides is a representative of the Cyprus delegation to the Assembly since June 20, 2016. She is chairman of the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. She signed a petition on the removal of the former PACE head Pedro Agramunt from the post.-02D-
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Lawyer Elmar Suleymanov met on Wednesday in Baku Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 with Anar Mamadli , the head of the Center for Monitoring Elections and Democracy Training.
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On the occasion of the International Workers' Day on May 1 in Baku, a poster was hung on the pedestrian bridge in the Central Park: "Your wealth is stolen from the workers."
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On May 1, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Speaker of the Parliament of the Iraqi Republic Mohsin Ali Akbar Al-Mandalawi. During the meeting, issues related to the development of bilateral relations and inter-parliamentary ties were discussed. Ilham Aliyev received the Chairman of the Iraqi Parliament.
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The executive power of Baku again refused the appeal of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) on holding a protest action on May 5, the head of the NCDF Jamil Hasanli. He regarded the decision of the city administration as another step in restricting freedom of assembly.
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