At the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe a Spanish MP Pedro Agramunt was elected head of the structure. His candidacy was put forward by the political groups (factions) PACE - "European People's Party."According to the unwritten rules, the head of the PACE are alternately representatives of all factions of the Assembly. Agramunt is a member of PACE since 2000. In 2010-2015. He was co-rapporteur of PACE on Azerbaijan.
In January 2013 Agramunt opposed the report on political prisoners in Azerbaijan, Christoph Strasser prepared. After that Azerbaijan has intensified wave of arrests of civil society activists and journalists.
According to the Spanish press, Agramut in his youth collaborated with the Franco regime.
Agramunt was elected for a term of two years, with a renewal of the mandate in January 2017.-06D-
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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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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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