The CE Venice Commission will publish a week before the referendum on September 26 in Azerbaijan its draft opinion on the constitutional amendments to the Constitution. "The text of the conclusion will be discussed and approved at the plenary session of 14-15 October," RIA Novosti was told in the Venice Commission.
Earlier, the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe urged the Venice Commission to check and assess the relevance of the proposed changes to the standards and requirements of the Council of Europe.
PACE Bureau took this step after the Azerbaijani authorities refused to send to the expertise of the Venice Commission's proposed changes to the Constitution. -02D-
Politics
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Pashinyan and Putin have agreed that the checkpoint between Armenia and Iran will be guarded only by Armenian border guards from 1 January 2025.
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"The United States values its bilateral relationship with Azerbaijan," a State Department Spokesperson on Tuesday told TURAN's Washington correspondent when asked about official Baku's latest efforts to portray the U.S. and the West as enemies of Azerbaijan.
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The Azerbaijani city of Lachin will become the cultural capital of the CIS in 2025, after which the baton will pass to the Armenian city of Meghri, and then to the Belarusian city of Molodechno, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the CIS summit in Moscow on Tuesday.
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During today’s one-on-one meetings, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan for half an hour each, the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov told journalists. "Well, the topic of the 'Zangezur Corridor' was also touched upon," Peskov said in response to a question about whether this topic was raised during the meetings.
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