Letter of Azerbaijani MP on spotlight of World Mass Media
Baku, April 26 (AZERTAC). Open letter of the member of Azerbaijani delegation to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), MP Elkhan Suleymanov was published by the world mass media.
The letter stressing Azerbaijan’s absolute objection to the Armenia’s presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to PACE was printed in 345 sites in English, German and French languages.
The letter noting that 20% of Azerbaijani lands were occupied by the Armenian troops and 1 million people became internally displaced persons.
Elkhan Suleymanov also noted that Armenia has been handed the chair despite the fact it involves one Council of Europe member state occupying the land of another for 25 years after the invasion and in defiance of resolutions by the United Nations, the European Parliament and even PACE itself.
He also lifted the question of this year's presidential election in Armenia that returned to power Serzh Sargsyan, a former military commander linked to the massacre of civilians in the town of Khojali, Azerbaijan, on 26th February of 1992.
‘The PACE observer team to that election, led by Norwegian politician Karin Woldseth , decreed the poll to be fair despite noting in its report the military occupation of Azerbaijani territories,’ said Suleymanov in his letter, contradicts all notions of ‘democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law.’
In response to Woldseth’s report, Suleymanov has submitted a counter motion with the support of 24 MPs’ from five countries declaring the Armenian presidential elections to be undemocratic.
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