Head of the Azerbaijani Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was elected the Assembly’s Vice-President.
The elections to the post of the PACE vice-presidents were held at the opening of the Assembly’s winter session on Jan. 22, APA reports.
The following are the new vice presidents of the PACE : Samad Seyidov (Azerbaijan), Werner Amon (Austria), Volodymyr Ariev (Ukraine)Wlodzimierz Bernacki (Poland), L’ubos Blaha (Slovak Republic), Rosa Bjork Brynjólfsdóttir (Iceland), Titus Corlatean (Romania), Sir Roger Gale (United Kingdom), Jonas Gunnarsson (Sweden), Alfred Heer (Switzerland), Akif Çagatay Kiliç (Turkey), Stella Kyriakides (Cyprus), Ana Catarina Mendes (Portugal) Marianne Mikko (Estonia), Andreas Nick (Germany), Joe O’Reilly (Ireland) and Marija Obradovic (Serbia) and Nicole Trisse (France).
Seyidov was previously elected the PACE vice-president on a rotating basis.