PACE MONITORING COMMITTE`s MEETING HELD IN PARIS

20.05.2010 [11:57]
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Paris, May 20 (AZERTAC). PACE Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) held Wednesday a meeting here.

The event participants discussed a number of issues, including a report on the “Functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan” prepared by co-rapporteurs Andres Herkel and Joseph Debono Grech, the state of democracy in Europe and the progress of the parliamentary assembly`s monitoring procedure, relationship between Georgia and Russia, post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey and implementation of the commitments of Albania, Armenia, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the Council of Europe.

Head of the Azerbaijan`s parliamentary delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov and MP Aydin Abbasov attended the meeting.

Seyidov told AZERTAC`s special correspondent that the report on the “Functioning of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan” was discussed in a constructive atmosphere. A majority of the Committee members praised the ongoing processes in Azerbaijan.”

Seyidov described the report as “objective in comparison with the previous years,” adding, however, “it includes some criticism”.

PACE MONITORING COMMITTE`s MEETING HELD IN PARIS

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