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  • BAKU: PACE Monitoring Committee Post-Monitoring press-conference

    Today, Azerbaijan
    July 6 2005

    Members of PACE Monitoring Committee held press-conference devoted to
    results of visit

    06 July 2005 [10:57] - Today.Az

    Closed meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary
    Assembly of the Council of Europe was held in Baku yesterday.


    The members of the PACE Monitoring Committee held a press-conference
    for journalists after the meeting.

    The deputy-chairman of the committee Mrs. Severinsen informed that
    the question of fulfilling the commitments undertaken by Azerbaijan
    before the Council of Europe was discussed in the sitting, an
    exchange of views on free gathering and protecting the election
    rights in Azerbaijan was held with the representatives of the
    government, opposition and non-governmental organizations. Severinsen
    reminded that the elections to be held in November are vital for
    Azerbaijan and said that the same question will also be discussed in
    the meeting with Ilham Aliyev yesterday.

    The co-raporteur on Azerbaijan of the Monitoring Committee Andreas
    Gross said that he will leave for Gazakh, Sheki, Ganja and Gabala
    with his colleague Andres Herkel tomorrow for studying the situation
    on pre-elections environment and right of gathering in the regions.
    `Azerbaijan does not consist of only Baku, the situation seems better
    from the regions' saying Andreas Gross considers that at least ¼ of
    the parliament should consist of the representatives of the
    opposition. `When the relation is lower than this, then the
    parliament is not formed well.

    The parliament should not be the continuation of the Cabinet; it
    should consist both of the government and opposition'. Another
    co-raporteur on Azerbaijan of the Monitoring Committee Andres Herkel
    called the meetings they held very efficient. The co-raporteur noted
    that existence of the right of gathering of the people in the regions
    is important and expressed his regret that the opposition could
    realize the actions only in 4 regions, though they wanted to do it in
    17 regions. Herkel called abolishing the imprisonment sentence on the
    former prisoners to be very important event and welcomed 4 former
    political prisoners' obtaining the right of being elected. He did not
    also hide his trouble about that the activity of the Public
    Television remains only on the paper till now. `This television has a
    great role in holding debates. We are troubled with absence of the
    political dialogue between the government and opposition'.

    The PACE raporteur on the Upper Garabagh conflict David Atkinson
    reminded that the document related to the problem was adopted in
    January of this year. He said that the structure he represents wants
    this problem to be solved only in peaceful way and declared that
    parliamentarians' joining this question is the desired case. `I
    regret that the parliament members were not drawn into the OSCE Minsk
    Group five meetings which were held between the representatives of
    Azerbaijan and Armenia in the frame of the meeting of the
    Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I feel regret about
    such meeting's not taking place in the January session. I hope that a
    round table on the Upper Garabagh subject will take place in
    October'.

    The head of the delegation of Azerbaijan in PACE Samad Seyidov
    expressed his gratitude to the Monitoring Committee for holding such
    meeting in Baku.

    The parliamentarian called the meeting very important and efficient
    and said that necessary discussions for the future of Azerbaijan were
    held here and informed that both positive and negative opinions were
    sounded.

    He expressed his hope that all problems will be solved till the
    elections. Andreas Gross answering the questions informed that except
    the government, no one is satisfied with the pre-elections situation.
    `We are not satisfied with the changes made to the Election Code and
    we are troubled with the non-equal composition of the election
    commissions'.

    /APA/

    URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/19858.html
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