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Tomorrow Andres Herkel will inform PACE Monitoring Committee about referendum in Azerbaijan

04 June 2009 15:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanova â€“ APA. Co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee for Azerbaijan Andres Herkel will report about the March 18 referendum held in Azerbaijan on amendments and annexes to the Constitution at the meeting of the committee in Paris on June 5. Andres Herkel told APA that he will brief the members of the committee about his visit together with the other co-rapporteur Evguenia Jivkova to Azerbaijan on April 8-11 and the referendum.
â€œThe Monitoring Committee initiated before the Venice Commission to hold legal examination concerning the referendum. We could not discuss the committeeâ€™s opinion during the April session, therefore I want to touch on this issue tomorrow,â€ he said.

Co-rapporteur Evguenia Jivkova will not attend tomorrowâ€™s meeting. Functioning of the democratic institutions in Armenia, state of human rights in Europe and improvement in PACEâ€™s monitoring procedure will be mainly debated at the meeting of the Monitoring Committee. Discussions will be held on Azerbaijan, Moldova, Monaco, Albania and Ukraine.