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PACE Monitoring Committee holds discussions on Azerbaijan

28 June 2012 16:49 (UTC +04:00)

Seyidov said that todayâ€™s negotiations were held very constructively: â€œVery important issues were discussed at the Monitoring Committeeâ€™s meeting today and the committee members addressed after listening my and Mr. Agramuntâ€™s speech. The general opinion was that the preparation of report inside the Monitoring Committee is implemented in normal and objective form. There are a big non-objectiveness, incorrect issues, and even preconceived issues in the classification of political prisoners concept and the other reports about political prisoners in Azerbaijan presented by Mr. Strasser in the Assemblyâ€™s Committee on Human Rights. It is possible to prevent it only by one way, it is Azerbaijanâ€™s continuation its work with PACE Monitoring Committee at high level. The Monitoring Committee is interested in it and pressures against co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan in the Committee are assessed as an inadmissible treatment. The necessity of delivering the objective, real and positive progresses in Azerbaijan in a short time was noted at the meetingâ€.

Seyidov said that Azerbaijan made one more contribution to Europeâ€™s energy security by signing the agreement with Turkey on TANAP project: â€œVery constructive relations were created in the Monitoring Committee. The co-rapporteurs will visit the country in October and their report will be likely discussed in PACEâ€™s winter session. If the preparation of report doesnâ€™t end till January-April months, the document must be discussed in the organizationâ€™s spring session, because according to PACE procedures, the report must be presented to the organizationâ€™s plenary session within two yearsâ€.