PACE rapporteurs visit

On Tuesday began an official visit to Azerbaijan of the rapporteurs of PACE Monitoring Committee Pedro Agramunt (Spain) and Joseph Debono Gresh (Malta).

     According to a source in the Council of Europe, the Rapporteurs met with Parliament Speaker Oktay Asadov, the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice, and the leaders of parties represented in the parliament. They will become familiar with the implementation of PACE resolution on Azerbaijan and the country's commitments to the Council of Europe.
    Evening of June 13 the speakers will hold a press conference at the end of the visit.
     January 23 PACE adopted a resolution on Azerbaijan's fulfillment of its obligations to the Council of Europe, composed on the basis of the report by Agramunt and Gresh. It calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to respect freedom of assembly and expression, to remove obstacles to the registration and operation of NGOs, to facilitate the registration of international NGOs, to solve the problem of alleged political prisoners and others. - 16D06 –
 
 

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