STATE DEPARTMENT: CONVICTION OF EYNULLA FATULLAYEV IS NOT A STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION

On 13 August, the Baku Nasimi district court chaired by Babek Panahov completed preparatory hearing on the complaint filed by Aydin Aliyev against the head of the Party of People's Front of Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli as a private prosecution.

Azerbaijan must unconditionally fulfill the PACE rules in order to return its delegation to the Assembly.  This was stated by Frank Schwabe, head of the German delegation to PACE.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry called as "biased and unfair" the European Union's statements made at the Council of Europe about human rights violations in the country.

On 12 September from 00:15 to 01:05 the Armenian armed forces fired several times with small arms at Azerbaijani army positions in the direction of Yukhary Buzgov settlement of Babek region of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.  Azerbaijani units took adequate retaliatory measures in the mentioned direction, the press service of the Azerbaijani military department said in a statement.