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Ago group visits Azerbaijan

04 July 2007 16:58 (UTC +04:00)

Permanent Swedish representative to the Council of Europe Per SjÃ¶gren leads the group. The group includes permanent ambassadors Eberhard KÃ¶lsch (Germany), Bruno Guen (France), Peteris Elferts (Latvia), Stellan Stolan (Romania) and Alexander Alekseyev (Russia). They will be accompanied by CE secretariat officials Puarel, Aarnio-Lvoff and Cheliento.
The current state of the relations of Azerbaijan with the Council of Europe, implementation of the commitments, independence of courts, activity of local authorities, freedom of media and the Nagorno Karabakh problem will mainly be debated during the meetings. Ago group is expected to meet Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, head of Presidentâ€™s Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev, the speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament Ogtay Asadov, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, chairman of Central Election Commission (CEC) Mazahir Panahov, chief of Azerbaijan National Television and Radio Council Nushirevan Meherremli in the framework of their visit to Azerbaijan. Justice Minister of the group is expected to participate in the roundtable on activity of court system with the participation of Prosecutor General, chiefs of Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, Bar and Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ago monitoring group had visited Armenia before Azerbaijan. The group made serious remarks to Armenian government regarding freedom of media, judicial system and electoral code. /APA/