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    AZERBAIJANI EX-PRESIDENT ALLOWED TO SEEK DEPUTY SEAT

    RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
    Sept 5 2005

    5 September 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Election officials in Azerbaijan's
    capital today authorized former President Ayaz Mutalibov to run as
    a candidate in the 6 November parliamentary elections.

    Mutalibov, who is wanted in Azerbaijan for his alleged failure
    to prevent the loss of territory to Armenian forces during the
    Nagorno-Karabakh war, has been living in Russia since his resignation
    in 1992.

    Another prominent political exile, former parliamentary speaker Rasul
    Quliyev, was registered as a candidate last month.

    The Council of Europe, of which Azerbaijan is a member, has long
    demanded that both Quliyev and Mutalibov be allowed to take part in
    Azerbaijan's political life.

    But the Prosecutor-General's Office has warned that both men would
    be arrested as soon as they come back to the country.

    The secretary-general of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, who is
    on a visit to Baku, today insisted that the upcoming parliamentary
    polls should be free and fair.
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