Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC) and Cezar Florin Preda (Romania, EPP/CD), PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, will visit the country to further assess the honoring of its obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe.
Visit of the rapporteurs is carried out against the background of the publication of the international NGO European Stability Initiative (ESI) report on "Caviar Diplomacy-2", which contains the facts of bribery by some members of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, members of the Assembly. Official Baku has not commented on these condemns.–06D--
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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