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AZERBAIJAN TO AMEND LAW TO CANCEL ELECTIONS DURING WAR - OPPOSITION DAILY
Yeni Musavat
June 14 2010
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's parliament is to hold an emergency session on 18 June
to discuss a draft law on postponing elections during wartime, the
pro-opposition daily Yeni Musavat reported.
According to the draft, elections to the Milli Maclis (parliament)
scheduled for November can be put off if the country is involved in
war, the paper said quoting Panah Huseyn, a member of the opposition
Musavat faction in parliament.
The motion indicates that the authorities have serious plans to take
military action to regain control of Nagornyy Karabakh and surrounding
seven districts captured by Armenian forces in the early 1990s,
Yeni Musavat said.
"The purpose of the work that is being carried out shows that the Baku
government views military operations in Nagornyy Karabakh as a serious
prospect, and is preparing for it as hard as it can," the paper said.
Postponing elections during wartime was among the provisions approved
in a constitutional referendum in March 2009, Yeni Musavat said.
From: A. Papazian
Yeni Musavat
June 14 2010
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's parliament is to hold an emergency session on 18 June
to discuss a draft law on postponing elections during wartime, the
pro-opposition daily Yeni Musavat reported.
According to the draft, elections to the Milli Maclis (parliament)
scheduled for November can be put off if the country is involved in
war, the paper said quoting Panah Huseyn, a member of the opposition
Musavat faction in parliament.
The motion indicates that the authorities have serious plans to take
military action to regain control of Nagornyy Karabakh and surrounding
seven districts captured by Armenian forces in the early 1990s,
Yeni Musavat said.
"The purpose of the work that is being carried out shows that the Baku
government views military operations in Nagornyy Karabakh as a serious
prospect, and is preparing for it as hard as it can," the paper said.
Postponing elections during wartime was among the provisions approved
in a constitutional referendum in March 2009, Yeni Musavat said.
From: A. Papazian